We found 58 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word swing:
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 General (29 matching dictionaries)
- swing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- SWING, swing: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- swing: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- Swing, swing: Wordnik [home, info]
- swing: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Swing: Wiktionary [home, info]
- swing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- swing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- swing: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- swing: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- swing (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- swing: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- swing: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- swing: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
- Swing (Australian politics), Swing (Java), Swing (Manhattan Transfer album), Swing (Savage song), Swing (band), Swing (dance), Swing (genre), Swing (music), Swing (musical group), Swing (politics), Swing (seat), Swing (sexology), Swing (video game), Swing, Swing, The Swing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- swing: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
- Swing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- swing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- swing: Rhymezone [home, info]
- swing, swing (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- swing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- Swing: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook [home, info]
- Swing: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
- swing: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- swing: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- swing: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- Swing, swing: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- swing: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- swing: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Art (5 matching dictionaries)
- swing: Essentials of Music [home, info]
- SWING: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
- Swing: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
- Swing: Jazz Humor [home, info]
- SWING: Dance [home, info]
Business (3 matching dictionaries)
- Swing: Investopedia [home, info]
- Swing: Taxopedia [home, info]
- swing: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
- Swing: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
- Swing: Webopedia [home, info]
- Swing (dance), Swing (genre), Swing (sexology), swing: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
- Swing, swing: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- SWING: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
- Swing: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
- Swing: Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices [home, info]
- SWING: Acronym Finder [home, info]
- swing: Idioms [home, info]
Science (1 matching dictionary)
- swing: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement [home, info]
Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
- Swing: Totally Unofficial Rap [home, info]
- swing: The Folk File [home, info]
- Swing: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang [home, info]
Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
- Swing: Backgammon [home, info]
- swing: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
- swing: Golfer's Dictionary [home, info]
- Swing: Sports Definitions [home, info]
Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
- Swing: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
- Swing: Nikonians Photo Glossary [home, info]
- swing: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
- Swing: Sweetwater Music [home, info]
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Quick definitions (swing)
▸ noun: changing location by moving back and forth
▸ noun: a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
▸ noun: a sweeping blow or stroke ("He took a wild swing at my head")
▸ noun: mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
▸ noun: a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
▸ noun: a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity ("The party went with a swing")
▸ noun: in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
▸ noun: a jaunty rhythm in music
▸ noun: the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
▸ verb: move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting ("Swing a bat")
▸ verb: be a social swinger; socialize a lot
▸ verb: influence decisively
▸ verb: live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style ("The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely")
▸ verb: have a certain musical rhythm ("The music has to swing")
▸ verb: alternate dramatically between high and low values ("His mood swings")
▸ verb: hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement ("The soccer player began to swing at the referee")
▸ verb: engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends ("There were many swinging couples in the 1960's")
▸ verb: make a big sweeping gesture or movement
▸ verb: play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
▸ verb: move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
▸ verb: change direction with a swinging motion; turn ("Swing back")
▸ verb: hang freely
▸ name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #11293)
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