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Not only Walter Greenway, but the whole club explained to Alf that the swing was a bad swing, an awful violation of style, practically a crime.

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  1. intransitive verb To move back and forth suspended or as if suspended from above.
  2. intransitive verb To hit at something with a sweeping motion of the arm: swung at the ball.
  3. intransitive verb To move laterally or in a curve: The car swung over to the curb.
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  • I read [that champion golfer] Tiger [Woods] went into a slump, I think two years ago, where his swing was a little off. —  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Near the seat of the swing was a length of thick rope, wrapped in a coil, like a cobra waiting to strike. —  Death Dance - Fairstein
  • The two extremes of the swing were the favourable one that we would recommended that the running of the country should be handed over to the lobbyists. —  BlogCymru.com
  • In US political terms the swing was 23\%, which is even bigger that some of the upsets that the GOP has seen over the last few months. —  The Moderate Voice
  • The speed of your swing is the biggest factor when you decide to get into the more technical side of shaft flex choice. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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stroke ·  move ·  sweep ·  thrust ·  stride ·  jump ·  motion ·  shift ·  roll ·  slide ·  beat ·  rhythm

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swing:   swings ·  swung ·  swinging
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English swingen, to beat, brandish, from Old English swingan, to flog, strike, swing.

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  1. from Middle English swingen, swyngen (preterit swang, past participle swungen, swongen), from Anglo-Saxon swingan (preterit swang, past participle swungen), intransitive fly, flutter, flap with the wings, transitive beat, dash, scourge, = Old Saxon swingan = OFries. swinga = Dutch swingen = Middle Low German swingen, fly, flutter, swing, throw, beat, scourge, = Old High German swingan, Middle High German swingen, German schwingen, swing, rise, soar, = Swedish swinga = Danish svinge, swing, whirl, = Gothic (Moesogothic) *swiggwan (indicated by the above forms, and by the deriv. *swaggwjan, in comp. uf-swaggwjan); akin to swink and swank, and perhaps ult. to sway, swag. Hence swinge, swingle, etc.
  2. from Middle English swing, from Anglo-Saxon swing, a blow, = OFries. swinge = Old High German swing, Middle High German swine = Swedish Danish sving, a swing, flourish; from the verb.
 

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