Usually means: Brief, casual, spontaneous romantic encounter.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. fling: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fling, fling: Wordnik
  7. fling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fling, fling: Wiktionary
  9. fling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fling, fling: Dictionary.com
  13. fling (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fling (Irish), Fling (film), The Fling (band), The Fling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fling: Rhymezone
  19. fling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. FLING: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Fling: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. fling: Free Dictionary
  24. fling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Fling, fling: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. fling: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. fling: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fling: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FLING: Acronym Finder
  2. fling: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the fling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See flinger as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act of throwing, often violently.
noun:  An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
noun:  An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
noun:  A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
noun:  (figuratively) An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling").
noun:  (obsolete) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe or taunt.
noun:  A lively Scottish country dance.
noun:  (obsolete) A trifling matter; an object of contempt.
verb:  (transitive) To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
verb:  (intransitive, now archaic) To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To throw; to wince; to flounce.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To utter abusive language; to sneer.
noun:  A surname.

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