[ noun ]
■ a square dance figure
■ a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
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swing
[ noun ]
■ in baseball
■ a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
e.g.)
・he took a vicious cut at the ball
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baseball swing
,
cut
,
swing
[ verb ]
■ hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
e.g.)
・The soccer player began to swing at the referee
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swing
[ verb ]
■ engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
e.g.)
・There were many swinging couples in the 1960's
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swing
[ verb ]
■ make a big sweeping gesture or movement
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sweep
,
swing
,
swing out
[ verb ]
■ change direction with a swinging motion
■ turn
e.g.)
・swing back
・swing forward
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swing
[ verb ]
■ move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
e.g.)
・He swung his left fist
・swing a bat
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swing
[ noun ]
■ a jaunty rhythm in music
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lilt
,
swing
[ noun ]
■ a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s
■ flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
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jive
,
swing
,
swing music
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