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Swinging

adjective

1.

Characterized by a buoyant rhythm. Synonyms: lilting, swingy, tripping. "The flute broke into a light lilting air" , "A swinging pace" , "A graceful swingy walk" , "A tripping singing measure"

noun

1.

Changing location by moving back and forth. Synonyms: swing, vacillation.

Swing

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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"Swinging" Quotes from Famous Books

... eyes sought hers again, and held there; and the twin worlds, sphered in some slowly-turning orbit, seemed swinging in their native space. Now the cheeks and hair and mouth came out in their places, returning to distinctness like features of a face on a screen. Now the eyes became twin stars again, casting on him once more the effulgence of ...

— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick

... an open door showed a long sanded parlour, like that in public houses; several tables, benches, the walls whitewashed, but adorned with sundry ingenious designs made by charcoal or the smoked ends of clay-pipes; a strong smell of stale tobacco and of gin and rum. Another gaslight, swinging from the centre of the ceiling, sprang into light as Cutts ...

— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... into the position where they are to be attached to the carriage. Some artillery horses will, as I have noticed, associate the sound of the bugle with the resulting movements of the guns and take the appropriate positions, where they may be out of danger in the rapid swinging of the teams and carriages. It is partly because of this training received by disciplined artillery horses, that it seems to many experienced officers not worth while to have militia companies in this arm, ...

— Domesticated Animals - Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

... altered. She ceased looking quizzically amused, and left off swinging her brown boot. She sat up, uncrossed her knees, and leaning her elbows upon them, held out her large capable hands to Lady Ingleby. Her noble face, grandly strong and tender, in its undeniable plainness, was full of womanly understanding ...

— The Mistress of Shenstone • Florence L. Barclay

... of the huts surrounding the rude plaza, women squatted on the ground, their arms swinging monotonously up and down as they struck their wooden pestles into bowls of grain which they were grinding to make the coarse meal which was their mainstay ...

— The Weakling • Everett B. Cole

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