Usually means: Rhythmic, fluid motion back, forth.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. swing: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. swing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swing, swing: Wordnik
  7. swing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Swing, swing: Wiktionary
  9. swing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. swing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. swing: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. swing: Dictionary.com
  13. swing (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. swing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Swing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. swing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. swing: Rhymezone
  19. swing, swing (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. swing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Swing: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Swing: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. swing: Free Dictionary
  24. swing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Swing, swing: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. swing: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. swing: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  5. Dance (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Swing: Investopedia
  2. swing: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Swing: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Swing (dance), Swing (genre), Swing (sexology), swing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SWING: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  3. SWING: Acronym Finder
  4. swing: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. swing, swing, swing, swing: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. swing: The Folk File
  4. the swing: Urban Dictionary
  5. Swing: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Swing: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. swing: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Swing: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Swing: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
verb:  (intransitive) To dance.
verb:  (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
verb:  (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
verb:  (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
verb:  (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
verb:  (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
verb:  (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
verb:  (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
verb:  (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
verb:  (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
verb:  (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
verb:  (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
verb:  (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
verb:  (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
verb:  (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
verb:  To turn in a different direction.
noun:  The manner in which something is swung.
noun:  The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
noun:  A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
noun:  A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
noun:  An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
noun:  (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
noun:  The amount of change towards or away from something.
noun:  (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
noun:  (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
noun:  Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
noun:  In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
noun:  A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
noun:  The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
noun:  (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
noun:  Influence or power of anything put in motion.
noun:  (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
noun:  A surname.

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