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Crossword-Solution: FLING 5 letters, 113 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Fling v. t. To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart;
to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone
into the pond.
Fling v. t. To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
Fling v. t. To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate;
hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
Fling v. i. To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to
kick and fling.
Fling v. i. To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to
sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
Fling v. i. To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush
or spring with violence or haste.
Fling n. A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as,
the fling of a horse.
Fling n. A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic
scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
Fling n. A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
Fling n. A trifing matter; an object of contempt.

We have 113 clues for the answer “FLING”

Clue Answers
BRIEF love affair 1 answer
Brief bout of hedonism 1 answer
Brief relationship 1 answer
Carefree time. 1 answer
Casual love affair 1 answer
Casual romance 1 answer
Casual toss 1 answer
Dance with kilties 1 answer
Dundee dance 1 answer
EXTEND arms with sudden movement 1 answer
EXTEND with sudden movement 1 answer
HURL as missile 1 answer
Hurl forcefully 1 answer
Hurl forcefully, as a Frisbee 1 answer
It often includes trysts 1 answer
Kiltie dance 1 answer
Kiltie's dance 1 answer
Lively Highland dance 1 answer
Night on the town, say 1 answer
Not a slow throw 1 answer
One-night stand, say 1 answer
Period of unrestraint 1 answer
Self indulging escapade 1 answer
Series of hook-ups 1 answer
Short affair 1 answer
Short-lived relationship 1 answer
Short-lived romance 1 answer
Spirited celtic dance 1 answer
Spirited dance of Scotland. 1 answer
Summer romance, maybe 1 answer
Summer romance, perhaps 1 answer
Summer romance, say 1 answer
THROW into the ground 1 answer
Throw angrily 1 answer
Throw, at a carnival 1 answer
Unrestrained reveling 1 answer
melrose place affair 1 answer
move in an abrupt or headlong manner 1 answer
throw, send, or move forcefully or hurriedly 1 answer
Throw to the ground 2 answers
Casual affair 2 answers
Throw wildly 2 answers
BRIEF affair 2 answers
Casual try. 2 answers
Fleeting romance 2 answers
Gay time. 2 answers
Highland dance 2 answers
Impulsive indulgence 2 answers
Scottish words dance 2 answers
Throw aside. 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
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greedy person
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Sentences with FLING (5)

When she sat down to a basketful of their stockings, every heel with a hole in it, she would fling up her arms and exclaim, “Oh dear, I am sure I sometimes think spinsters are to be envied!” Her face beamed when she exclaimed this.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
When the sum at which they were valued was named, he pointed to a figure of himself, saying to the Sculptor, “You will certainly want much more for this, as it is the statue of the Messenger of the Gods, and author of all your gain.” The Sculptor replied, “Well, if you will buy these, I’ll fling you that into the bargain.” The Swan and the Goose A CERTAIN rich man bought in the market a Goose and a Swan.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Full of this dim and temperate bliss, he went on to fling the ewe over upon her other side, covering her head with his knee, gradually running the shears line after line round her dew-lap; thence about her flank and back, and finishing over the tail.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Yet was I quits with him and more; one stroke Of my good staff sufficed to fling him clean Out of the chariot seat and laid him prone.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
The truth seems to be, however, that when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with FLING (3)

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Every girl should have at least one wild fling on her resumé.
Donna Cummings Summer Lovin'
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.
T. S. Eliot The Family Reunion
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Used 82 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).