🏹 To throw 🏹 A simple weapon 🪢 To lift with straps 🩹 A support bandage 👜 A strap bag 👠 A strap shoe 🩹 To support an arm 🍹 A mixed drink

to sling

2 5.0

To support an injured arm by placing it in a cloth bandage hung from the neck

verb
/slɪŋ/

: poner en cabestrillo

To avoid straining her wrist, she decided to sling it while it healed from the sprain.
slung the injured arm

Examples

I'm gonna sling your arm and then I'll give you a shot for the pain.

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
But here's the scenario, my arm is already in the sling because I had torn a Peck muscle probably a week and a half prior to that.
Evie Gray had her shoulder wedged under my armpit and my arm slung across her shoulders.

Fiction book (1991)
The doctor advised him to sling his arm in a support to help with recovery after the injury.
After his accident, she gently slung his injured arm in a bandage to prevent further pain.

Synonyms

to strap

vsto sling

52 2.9

To fasten something with a band so it stays in place

is used specifically to support and immobilize a limb for healing

Antonyms

to release

∞ 1.8

To let someone or something go free from being held

Idioms

to sling one's hook

Archaic

9.9

To leave quickly because people do not want you there

Phrasal Verbs

to sling in

7.8

Quickly add something without much care

to sling off

Informal

8.6

To take off or get rid of something quickly and without care

to sling the ball

Informal

3.4

To throw the ball quickly and casually

Compounds

brandy sling

7.8

A mixed drink of brandy, sugar, and water served with ice and lemon

gin sling

8.1

A sweet drink made with gin and lemon, sometimes mixed with soda

rum sling

7.5

A mixed drink of rum, sugar, water, often with lemon juice

How Supported

cast

Specialized

84 3.5

to sling

2 5.0

brace

85 4.0

to support

240 1.0

rest

43 1.0

Surface Forms

sling infinitive

slinging present participle

slings third person singular

slung past

slung past participle

Etymology

Sling comes from the old English verb slingan, which meant 'to hang'. To 'sling' an arm is to put it into a sling and so to 'hang' or support it while it heals, which is why we use the word for that action.