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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A swimming event or leg of an event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
  2. n. The crawl.
  3. n. A competition, as in figure skating, skiing, or surfing, in which any maneuver or movement is allowed and competitors are judged on their artistic expression, acrobatic skill, and athletic expertise.
  4. n. A style of wrestling in which all noninjurious holds or tactics are permitted.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
  2. n. By extension The swimming stroke commonly referred to as the front crawl or the Australian crawl.
  3. n. A style of wrestling in which any non-injurious holds are permitted.
  4. n. A sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation.
  5. n. A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping.
  6. n. Modifying programming code in production and quality assurance environments, violating the existing procedures for promoting the same.
  7. v. intransitive To improvise one's own style; to ad-lib (especially in rap music).

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a race (as in swimming) in which each contestant has a free choice of the style to use

Etymologies

  1. free + style (Wiktionary)

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  1. race

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  1. 200-meter
  2. backstroke
  3. free-style
  4. line-by-line
  1. recordholder
  2. Allin
  3. 110-meter
  4. host-specific
  1. 200
  2. 100
  3. desotossonny
  4. cross-country
  1. end-of-line
  2. r&b
  3. withthis
  4. gangsta
  1. sprint
  2. otters'
  3. sex-offender
  4. (a

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  1. free skating
  1. best
  1. medley

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  1. hiphop

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  • trochee Ill Doctrine quotes an interview where Big Daddy Kane explains that "free style" raps were written, rather than "off the dome"; the term, he claims, is "free of style", where "style" means "about women, business, problems"; "a free style," he says, "is a rap you wrote." Mar 20, 2010

  • sionnach Swedish for "walkman" Dec 4, 2008

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