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sling

[ UK /slˈɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice
  2. a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel
  3. a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released
  4. bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck
  5. a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones
VERB
  1. hold or carry in a sling
    he cannot button his shirt with his slinged arm
  2. hang loosely or freely; let swing
  3. hurl as if with a sling
  4. move with a sling
    sling the cargo onto the ship
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  • The next day Tredias' arm was very nearly healed and needed only the support of a sling.
  • Both are equipped with studs for sling swivels.
  • On the platform were representatives of the UK Independence Party, Conservatives, Lib-Dems, Labour and the Greens, and the usual mud-slinging followed.
  • Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
  • Pont's plan was to remould Sharma's javelin hurl into a biomechanically perfect round-arm sling, in the process creating a fast-bowling Frankenstein's monster. Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
  • There was nothing but mud-slinging, exaggerations, outright lies and immature namecalling.
  • College students are stranded in an abandoned town whose only law is the ghost of ruthless gunslinger Bloody Bill Anderson and his posse of vicious zombies.
  • She pulled her sling out of her pack and gathered three or four appropriately sized stones and set out to find her dinner.
  • There aren't many films that metaphorically made ... jdogzz: love the first three cant wait till the forth one comes out my e-mail is: [email protected] alew: It ` s not ryan gosling in the last photo - it ` s the the director of the film Film Junk
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