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Fling   /flɪŋ/   Listen
Fling

noun
1.
A usually brief attempt.  Synonyms: crack, go, offer, pass, whirl.  "I gave it a whirl"
2.
A brief indulgence of your impulses.  Synonym: spree.
3.
The act of flinging.
verb
(past & past part. flung; pres. part. flinging)
1.
Throw with force or recklessness.
2.
Move in an abrupt or headlong manner.
3.
Indulge oneself.  Synonym: splurge.



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"Fling" Quotes from Famous Books



... flat and still under the green wall she saw the tennis court. Jerrold was there, knocking balls over the net to please little Colin. She could see him fling back his head and laugh as Colin ran stumbling, waving his racquet before him like a stiff flag. She heard Colin squeal with excitement as the balls flew out of ...
— Anne Severn and the Fieldings • May Sinclair

... the Secession of South Carolina was an "undoubted right," a "duty," and their "only safety" and as to himself, he would "unfurl the Palmetto flag, fling it to the breeze, and, with the spirit of a brave man, live and die as became" his "glorious ancestors, and ring the clarion notes of defiance in the ears of ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan

... your fling at it!" promised M. Gortchky. "But enough of this. You shall talk it over with me to-morrow. Diplomacy, you know, is all gamble, and the gambler makes the best diplomat in the world. For to-night, ...
— Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service - or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty • H. Irving Hancock

... though they are much admired by the clergy of the better sort, and by certain religiously-disposed people, to whom thinking is distasteful or impossible. Because they cannot definitely believe, they fling themselves with all the more fervour upon these cloudy Wordsworthian phrases, and imagine they see something solid ...
— Clara Hopgood • Mark Rutherford

... Justice, or this blade, Which I, her sword-bearer, do carry, 760 For civil deed and military. Nor shall those words of venom base, Which thou hast from their native place, Thy stomach, pump'd to fling on me, Go unreveng'd, though I am free: 765 Thou down the same throat shalt devour 'em, Like tainted beef, and pay dear for 'em. Nor shall it e'er be said, that wight With gantlet blue, and bases ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler


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