to fling
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3.1
- verb
- /flɪŋ/
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- Graham stuns it with an oar, finally flinging it into the river.
Have you seen the clip of Katy Perry flinging slices of pizza to fans?
- Have you seen the clip of Katy Perry flinging slices of pizza to fans?
- I rushed to the gate and flung it wide.
- Oh, just flung ramen across the room.
- So gravity pulls the stars, starts to fling them outwards.
- So he picks them up and just flings him.
- And as that object moves, blood will be flung off it.
- AG wasn't thinking just about himself, his own guilt, his own love, his own arms flung hopelessly around his subjects.
- And when they bust out, the particles of the plasma like hanging on to that magnetic field, but they get flung into space.
- And you just got flung into that pit of despair and violence, bro.
- As I was opening it, this must have just flung off out of like the packet.
- Yeah, but this time the tuna cans fling out the sock.
Examples
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Have you never heard of anglers who catch little fish and then fling them back again?
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I reach in the sack for a green apple and fling it right at him, but it misses.
Fiction book (1992) -
Now get ready to fling me in the direction of that moving train.
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Everything that two oceans fling at us... anything you can think of.
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Don't just fling it anywhere.
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The woman gives up and pays, though she almost flings the money at the market woman.
Academic text (2009) -
I wanted to rip it out of my smock and fling it into the next river.
Fiction book (1993) -
Then she yanks the pillow from under her stomach and flings it on top of me.
Fiction book (1990) -
Carl Crown dashed across Michigan in front of a police wagon, flinging up slush from its wheels.
Fiction book (1993) -
He decided to fling the ball as far as he could across the field.
Synonyms
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1.0
To send something through the air by a quick movement of the arm
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1.0
To throw something lightly to another person
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4.2
To throw something away carelessly
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3.9
To throw something with force or without care
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5.1
To throw or send something suddenly with great force
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7.0
To throw something with great force and speed
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3.9
A strong sudden throw of something
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5.8
Send something suddenly and forcefully, like a rock or angry words
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3.5
A strong throw of something
To throw something forward, often a weapon like a spear
To throw something lightly without care
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Etymology
Fling comes from an old English verb that meant 'to throw' or to send something quickly. Think of the common word throw—to fling an object is to give it a sudden, forceful 'throw'.