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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

... to swing her foot, and both, encarnadined, looked up and down and everywhere for the invisible but well-known owner of that voice. It came ...

— Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington

... yielded to superior quickness at the draw. With a whoop of resignation they rushed back to the dance-hall where the voice of the caller was exhorting the gents—whose partners were mostly big, husky, hairy-faced men clumsily enacting parts generally assigned to members of the gentler sex—to swing: ...

— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco

... of a few hours ago seemed to have passed away from the girl who leaned back so lazily in her chair, watching the tip of her patent shoe swing backwards and forwards. She could even think of what had happened. Very soon she would be able to ...

— Anna the Adventuress • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... might be more likely to go there. In spite of the patrols, you know they haven't picked up all of the rebels who escaped Mars City by groundcar. Any of them who headed for Solis Lacus will be arriving there within the next two or three days. Then I'll make a swing around and spend as much time as necessary at each of the dome cities ...

— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay

... must ask you and several gentlemen on the platform here to forgive me. From the lowest point of view a few drums and fifes in the battalion mean at least five extra miles in a route march, quite apart from the fact that they can swing a battalion back to quarters happy and composed in its mind, no matter how wet or tired its body may be. Even when there is no route marching, the mere come and go, the roll and flourishing of drums and fifes around the barracks is as warming and cheering as the sight of a fire ...

— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

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