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Swing   /swɪŋ/   Listen
Swing

noun
1.
A state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity.  "It took time to get into the swing of things"
2.
Mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth.
3.
A sweeping blow or stroke.
4.
Changing location by moving back and forth.  Synonyms: swinging, vacillation.
5.
A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz.  Synonyms: jive, swing music.
6.
A jaunty rhythm in music.  Synonym: lilt.
7.
The act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it.  Synonyms: golf shot, golf stroke.
8.
In baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball.  Synonyms: baseball swing, cut.
9.
A square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them.
verb
(past & past part. swung, archaic swang; pres. part. swinging)
1.
Move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting.  "Swing a bat"
2.
Move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner.  Synonym: sway.
3.
Change direction with a swinging motion; turn.  "Swing forward"
4.
Influence decisively.  Synonym: swing over.
5.
Make a big sweeping gesture or movement.  Synonyms: sweep, swing out.
6.
Hang freely.  Synonyms: dangle, drop.  "The light dropped from the ceiling"
7.
Hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement.
8.
Alternate dramatically between high and low values.  "The market is swinging up and down"
9.
Live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style.
10.
Have a certain musical rhythm.
11.
Be a social swinger; socialize a lot.  Synonym: get around.
12.
Play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm.
13.
Engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends.



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"Swing" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself no longer. He lifted his club and burst open the boathouse door, and, snatching up a big cow-bell, he began to swing it about him and ring and ring with it through the ...
— Weird Tales from Northern Seas • Jonas Lie
... those who had hoped to see the Navy win. There were no cheers, save from the visitor-howlers. The best that the leader of the band could do, was to swing his baton and start in the strains of "'Twas Never Thus in ...
— Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis - Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen • H. Irving Hancock
... children o' Mulciber, Hot from the charcoal cheerily glimmering! Swing, swing, my boys, high swing the sledges! Heave at it, heave at it, all! Together! Great Mars, the war God, watches ye laboring Joyously. Joyous watches the gleam o' the Bright sparkles, upsoaring the faster, Faster as our merry ...
— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) • Henry William Herbert
... the easy swing of his figure down the passage, and then closed the door. "Delightful creature," he said musingly, "and not so very unlike an Apache chief either! But what was he doing outside my door? And was it HE who left that rose—not as a delicate Highland attention ...
— The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... in full swing—a vehement, rhythmic, dead-in-earnest ranch dance. Eight couples on the floor tramped or tiptoed, as the case might be, but always in perfect time with the two unmelodious fiddles. The tune, if tune it might be called, went ...
— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller


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