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Fling is a related term of hump.


As a noun fling

is an act of throwing, often violently.

As a verb fling

is to throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.

As a proper noun hump is

the himalayas, as the challenge for the supply route between india and china.

fling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of throwing, often violently.
  • An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
    • the fling of a horse
  • An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
  • * D. Jerrold
    • When I was as young as you, I had my fling . I led a life of pleasure.
  • Short, often sexual relationship.
    • I had a fling with a girl I met on holiday.
  • (figuratively) An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling" ).
  • (obsolete) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • I, who love to have a fling , / Both at senate house and king.
  • A kind of dance.
    • the Highland fling
  • (obsolete) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
  • * Old proverb
    • England were but a fling / Save for the crooked stick and the grey goose wing.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
  • * Dryden
    • 'Tis Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings, / Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings.
  • * Addison
    • I know thy generous temper well. / Fling but the appearance of dishonour on it, / It straight takes fire.
  • * 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
    • Wilkinson was struggling, sending the re-start straight into touch and flinging a pass the same way, and France then went close to the first try of the contest as Clerc took a long pass out on the left and was just bundled into touch by the corner flag.
  • (archaic) To throw oneself in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
  • * Milton
    • And crop-full, out of doors he flings .
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • I flung' closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, ' flings to sheath.
  • (archaic) To throw; to wince; to flounce.
  • * Helen Crocket, The Ettrick Shepherd's Last Tale
    • The horse flung most potently, making his heels fly aloft in the air.
  • (archaic) To utter abusive language; to sneer.
    • The scold began to flout and fling .

    hump

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia hump) (en noun)
  • A mound of earth.
  • A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
  • A speed hump.
  • (rft-sense) A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
  • (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
  • (British, slang) A bad mood.
    • get the hump''', have the '''hump''', take the '''hump .
  • (slang) A painfully boorish person.
    • That guy is such a hump !

    Synonyms

    * (abnormal deformity of the spine) gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchback

    See also

    * over the hump * hump day * speed hump

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bend something into a hump.
  • (slang) To carry something, especially with some exertion.
  • (slang) To carry, especially with some exertion.
  • (intransitive) To dry-hump.
  • (slang) To have sex with.
  • (slang) To have sex.

    • Derived terms

    * dry-hump