Flang

//flæŋ// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A miner's double-edged pick.
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of fling colloquial, dialectal, form-of, nonstandard, past

Synonyms

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nerve

Etymology

Probably formed by analogy with sing/sang. Compare Scots flang (“flung”).

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