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To fling is to throw something with force. You'll start a food fight in the cafeteria if you fling your vegetables at the kid across the table.

The act of throwing something recklessly or with force can also be called a fling. Your mail sorting ritual might be putting bills in one pile and personal letters in another, then giving junk mail a fling into the recycling bin. A brief period of revelry or indulgence is another kind of fling. You and your friends could plan a weekend fling in New York, staying in a hotel, eating out, and shopping without worrying about how much money you spend.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: fling

1	v n	throw with force or recklessness the act of flinging
2	v n	indulge oneself a brief indulgence of your impulses
3	n	a usually brief attempt

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: fling

v throw with force or recklessness

“fling the frisbee”

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; flip, pitch, sky, toss
throw or toss with a light motion; submarine
throw with an underhand motion; lag
throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins; throw back, toss back
throw back with a quick, light motion

Type of:: throw
propel through the air

v throw or cast away

Synonyms:: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out

Types:: show 15 types...; hide 15 types...; unlearn
discard something previously learnt, like an old habit; deep-six, give it the deep six
toss out; get rid of; jettison
throw away, of something encumbering; junk, scrap, trash
dispose of (something useless or old); waste
get rid of; dump
throw away as refuse; retire
dispose of (something no longer useful or needed); abandon
forsake, leave behind; liquidize, sell out, sell up
get rid of all one's merchandise; de-access
dispose of by selling; close out
terminate by selling off or disposing of; chuck, ditch
throw away; dispense with
forgo or do or go without; forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive
lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; consign
commit forever; commit irrevocably

Type of:: get rid of, remove
dispose of

v move in an abrupt or headlong manner

“He flung himself onto the sofa”

Type of:: move
move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion

n the act of flinging

Type of:: throw
the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)

v indulge oneself

Synonyms:: splurge

Type of:: consume, squander, ware, waste
spend extravagantly

n a brief indulgence of your impulses

Synonyms:: spree

Types:: spending spree
a brief period of extravagant spending

Type of:: intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence
excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence

n a usually brief attempt

Synonyms:: crack, go, offer, pass, whirl

Type of:: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

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