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nounin baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
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nouna style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
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verbmake a big sweeping gesture or movement
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verbmove or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
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verbbe a social swinger; socialize a lot
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nounthe act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
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verbhang freelytype of:
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nounchanging location by moving back and forth
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verbinfluence decisively
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"his mood swings" "the market is swinging up and down"verbalternate dramatically between high and low valuestype of:
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nouna square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between thempart of:
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"the party went with a swing" "it took time to get into the swing of things"nouna state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activitytype of:
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"he took a wild swing at my head"nouna sweeping blow or stroketype of:
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"swing back" "swing forward"verbchange direction with a swinging motion; turn
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"There were many swinging couples in the 1960's"verbengage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friendstype of:
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"The music has to swing"verbhave a certain musical rhythmtype of:
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"The soccer player began to swing at the referee"verbhit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
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"The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely"verblive in a lively, modern, and relaxed styletype of:
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nounmechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forthtype of:part of:
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"swing a bat"verbmove in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
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verbplay with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythmtype of:
Definition that contains swing
- brachiate swing from one hold to the next
- brachiation swinging by the arms from branch to branch