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sling
verb- to throw something (or someone) in a specific direction; hence to pass something from one person to another UK
Common in C14 and C15, now dialect or colloquial. - If shit is flying at you from all directions, [Anthony] Pellicano will catch it and sling it back. — The Guardian, 29 November 2002
- to discard or abandon someone or something; to quit something UK, 1902
- to pay a tip to someone AUSTRALIA, 1875
- Though you’d think the Boss had forgotten he’d collect his ten per cent of the purse, plus his cut of Rufe’s five, plus any present the owner cared to sling. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 72, 1969
- That parrot’s got to go. Next thing it will be slinging tips to the newspapers. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 30, 1975
- — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 150, 1982
- “Colletti might sling big Davey,” gloated Watson with a far from pretty laugh, “but’s he’s a blow-in, a once-only earner for Billy.” — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 66, 1988
- to pay a bribe to someone AUSTRALIA, 1939
- And some of them have to sling bribes before they can even get a defence contract. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 82, 1954
- to sell illegal drugs US, 2001
- [H]is homies went back to Fifty-fourth and Imperial, where they continued to sling rock. — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 151, 1993
- Watch the same dealer sling vials for two hours until he turns his back, and then sneak off with his ground stash. — David Simon and Edward Burns, The Corner, p. 11, 1997
- When they sling–street slang for selling drugs–they do it alone or maybe with a friend. — St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F1, 29 March 2001
- to engage in promiscuous sexual behaviour BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 187, 1982
▶ sling hash
to work as a waitress or short-order cook US, 1906- Maybe some place where she was working, slingin’ hash, say, and one of the waitresses passed it around and she got hold of a copy. — Jim Thompson, The Nothing Man, p. 176–177, 1954
▶ sling ink
to tattoo US- — James Harris, A Convict’s Dictionary, p. 38, 1989
▶ sling your hook
to go, to leave UK, 1874
A naval derivation, perhaps inspired by slinging grappling hooks preparatory to swinging across to another ship. Later use seems to be mainly imperative.- “Go on,” said Brewer. “Sling your hooks.” — John Burke and Stuart Douglass, The Boys, p. 46, 1962
- I gave him back his nudie book / I said I was sorry, I slung my hook[.] — Ian Dury, Razzle in My Pocket, 1977
- Go on, sling your fuckin’ hook, you’re fuckin’ wired you cunt. — J.J. Connolly, Know Your Enemy [britpulp], p. 144, 1999
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