Definition of fling

"fling" in the noun sense

1. crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer

a usually brief attempt

"he took a crack at it"

"I gave it a whirl"

2. spree, fling

a brief indulgence of your impulses

3. fling

the act of flinging

"fling" in the verb sense

1. fling

throw with force or recklessness

"fling the frisbee"

2. fling

move in an abrupt or headlong manner

"He flung himself onto the sofa"

3. splurge, fling

indulge oneself

"I splurged on a new TV"

4. discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away

throw or cast away

"Put away your worries"

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Quotations for fling

Up, then, with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away -
This is no time for thee to sleep -
Up, watch, and work, and pray! [ Horatius Bonar ]

Fling down the nests and the rooks will be gone. [ Proverb ]

I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. [ William Shakespeare ]

If you will fling yourself under the wheels. Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it. [ Thackeray ]

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair. [ Froude ]

Seamen have a custom when they meet a whale to fling out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. [ Swift ]

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may? [ Thackeray ]

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. [ Swift ]

fling in Scrabble®

The word fling is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters fling:

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fling in Words With Friends™

The word fling is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters fling:

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Word Growth involving fling

Shorter words in fling

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Longer words containing fling

baffling bafflingly

baffling bafflingness

chuffling

coffling

flinging outflinging

flings outflings

flings purflings

flings riflings triflings

flings stiflings

flings whifflings

fuffling carfuffling

fuffling curfuffling

muffling bemuffling

muffling unmuffling

outfling outflinging

outfling outflings

piffling

purfling purflings

raffling

rifling riflings triflings

rifling trifling triflingly

rifling trifling triflings

ruffling truffling

scuffling

shuffling reshuffling

skiffling

snaffling foresnaffling

sniffling

snuffling

stifling overstifling

stifling restifling

stifling stiflingly

stifling stiflings

stifling unstifling

waffling

whiffling whifflings