wing

Related to wing: wind, Bing

wing

slang A human arm. Usually used in reference to baseball players. Their star pitcher hurt his wing during training.

wing it

To do or attempt something with little preparation in advance; to improvise. Oh man, I totally forgot that I'm supposed to do this presentation today—I'll just have to wing it.
See also: wing
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

wing

in. to travel by airplane. They winged from there to London.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) black as a raven's wing
  • a candidate for a pair of wings
  • be on the wing
  • be taken under the wing of (someone)
  • be under (one's) wing
  • be under the wing of (someone)
  • be waiting in the wings
  • candidate for a pair of wings
  • clip (one's) wings
  • clip somebody's wings
  • clip someone’s wings
  • clip someone's wings
  • clip someone's wings, to
  • clip wings
  • earn (one's) wings
  • fling-wing
  • get (one's) wings
  • get one’s wings
  • give wing to
  • give wing to (something)
  • have (someone) under (one's) wing
  • hit under the wing
  • if a toady frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass
  • If frogs had wheels, they wouldn't bump their butts
  • if frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their butts (when they hop)
  • if pigs had wings
  • if pigs had wings, they would/could fly
  • in the wings
  • left wing
  • look like a candidate for a pair of wings
  • look like a candidate for a pair of wings Go to a
  • on a wing and a prayer
  • on the wing
  • singe (one's) wings
  • singe your wings
  • spread (one's) wings
  • spread your wings
  • sprout wings
  • take (someone) under (one's) wing
  • take flight
  • take someone under your wing
  • take under one's wing
  • take wing
  • take/have somebody under your wing
  • try (one's) wings (out)
  • try wings
  • try your wings
  • under (one's) wing
  • under one's wing, to be/take someone
  • under someone's wing
  • under the wing of (something)
  • under the wing of someone/something
  • under wing
  • under your wing
  • wait in the wings
  • waiting in the wings
  • when pigs have wings
  • whing-ding
  • wing
  • wing (one's)/its way
  • wing heavy
  • wing it
  • wing it, to
  • wing your/its way
  • wingding
  • wing-ding
References in classic literature
When he talked to George Willard, Wing Bid- dlebaum closed his fists and beat with them upon a table or on the walls of his house.
The story of Wing Biddlebaum's hands is worth a book in itself.
Winesberg Ohio
Loud wails arose, great wings opened and closed with a loud, beating noise and many clawlike hands reached forth to clutch him.
Shrieking horribly, the creature clapped both hands to its face and sank to the ground while Bradley clambered quickly the remaining distance to the roof, though no sooner did he reach the top of the ladder than a great flapping of wings beneath him warned him that the Wieroos were rising after him.
Out of Times Abyss
At about two-thirds of its length this gallery, at a right angle, joined another gallery following the course of the right wing.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
It was a sad journey for Ojo, for without the wing of the yellow butterfly he saw no way to save Unc Nunkie--unless he waited six years for the Crooked Magician to make a new lot of the Powder of Life.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Instead of the generous spread of surface with which it had taken the air, it was now a lean and hawklike monoplane balanced on long and exceedingly narrow wings.
The Night Born
"I will bind up your poor little leg, and Zephyr shall rock you to sleep." So she folded the cool leaves tenderly about the poor fly, bathed his wings, and brought him refreshing drink, while he hummed his thanks, and forgot his pain, as Zephyr softly sung and fanned him with her waving wings.
Flower Fables
"I wish we had some of those loose wings," he said.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
This latter fact is well exemplified in the state of the wings of the female moths in certain groups.
The Origin of Species
In the pictures we always saw the angels with wings on - and that was all right; but we jumped to the conclusion that that was their way of getting around - and that was all wrong.
Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven
As he finished the incantation the Thing shuddered throughout its huge bulk, the Gump gave the screeching cry that is familiar to those animals, and then the four wings began flopping furiously.
The Marvelous Land of Oz
I have not heard of poultry that hadn't wings. Wings is the SIGN of poultry; it is what you tell poultry by.
Horses Tale
Whoever owned it could call three times upon the Winged Monkeys, who would obey any order they were given.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief.
Fables