What is the meaning of SWING. Phrases containing SWING
See meanings and uses of SWING!Slangs & AI meanings
Swingster is slang for a musician who plays jazz with swing.
Swinger is slang for a person regarded as being modern and lively.Swinger is slang for a promiscuous person who regularly swops sexual partners with otherlike−minded people.
Same as middle man
Telling sea stories. Referring to lamps slung from the deckhead which swing while at sea. The theory is that the more the lamp swings, the more the storyteller is exaggerating.
Swingle is American slang for a lively single person, especially one who goes out seeking a sexual partner.
In the days of sail, the entire ship's company was expected to witness floggings, and they were assembled on deck. If it was very crowded, the bosun might not have room to swing the "cat o' nine tails". Therefore this term means that the location is crowded.
A person who moves from sexual partner to sexual partner with no intention of settling into a permanent relationship. These people would be insulted if you called them 'sluts'! A feature of the 'social scene' that developed in the 1970's was the 'wife-swapping party' (not it was wives that were swapped not husbands!) where 'swinger couples' would get together to have sex with each others partner - usually male-female. (ed: how come I never get invited to that sort of party!)
Make a good job of braking. (See bug)
Swing both ways is slang for to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes (be bisexual).
Swing is slang for to be hanged.Swing is slang for to be lively and modern.Swing is slang for be promiscuous, engage in group sex or swapping casual sexual partners.
Swinge was old slang for drink up.
Swing the lead is slang for to waste time, to shirk ones duties.
Swingers is slang for the testicles.
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n.
A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.
v. t.
To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
n.
Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
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n.
One who swings or whirls.
v. t.
To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
n.
One who swinges.
n.
A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.
v. i.
To swing for pleasure.
n.
The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.
n.
A swingletree.
v. t.
To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.
v. t.
To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
n.
To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
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The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
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n.
The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
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