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wing
verb- to shoot at someone and wound them but not seriously UK, 1802
- Frenchy thought he winged one of them cats. He didn’t. None of them four shots went nowheres[.] — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 38, 1949
- to discipline someone UK
- to be winged, disciplined, called to account — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 123, 1996
▶ wing it
to improvise; to do something with little preparation US, 1970
Originally from the theatre, indicating the necessity of learning a part at short notice, standing in the wings of a stage.- Lawyers that do their homework. They can’t wing it anymore. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 214, 1979
- He doesn’t wing it very often. — Elmore Leonard, Split Images, p. 104, 1981
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