Definitions

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  • noun The midpoint of a swinging motion.
  • adverb At such a midpoint.

Etymologies

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mid- +‎ swing

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Examples

  • Last weekend outside San Diego's Petco Park, a 9½-foot statue of Gwynn in midswing was unveiled.

    Padres' Gwynn turned hitting into a science 2007

  • Last weekend outside San Diego's Petco Park, a 9½-foot statue of Gwynn in midswing was unveiled.

    Tony Gwynn singled his way into Cooperstown 2007

  • Halting in midswing, it let out a mammoth sneeze (evidently the enchanted mist was ticklish) and, despite the by now somewhat desperate chanting of the Dark Ones, began to shrink.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • The man paused his torch, midswing, and called back to his fellow guards, Might there be rats in these chambers?

    Sent Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

  • The man paused his torch, midswing, and called back to his fellow guards, Might there be rats in these chambers?

    Sent Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

  • The man paused his torch, midswing, and called back to his fellow guards, Might there be rats in these chambers?

    Sent Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

  • The man paused his torch, midswing, and called back to his fellow guards, Might there be rats in these chambers?

    Sent Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

  • The man paused his torch, midswing, and called back to his fellow guards, Might there be rats in these chambers?

    Sent Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

  • Nothing rattled Mickelson, not Woods, not the 13 holes in the morning and not even a happy-fingered photographer who zapped him midswing on his final third-round drive, a drive that still landed in the fairway.

    USATODAY.com - Mickelson proves he's his own man 2006

  • I kicked off one lemon-yellow high heel midswing, aiming for the frog, but I missed.

    I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert 2008

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