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Definition of swinging in English: swingingadjectiveˈswɪŋɪŋˈswɪŋɪŋ 1Moving back and forth or from side to side while suspended or on an axis. an old mahogany grandfather clock with a swinging pendulum 2informal Lively, exciting, and fashionable. 一个令人心动的旅游胜地。 激动人心的60年代。 Example sentencesExamples - Thursday is Sixties Night, when we will all sit round and try to remember what happened during that swinging decade.
- The couple first met at a church youth group 40 years ago, and actually started going out together at a Valentine's dance back in the swinging 60s.
- Set among peace-loving forest dwellers in the swinging 60s the lively production even features a guest appearance by The King himself, Elvis.
- Frost plays acoustic guitar and delivers her breathy vocals with a retro cool, a swinging '60s chanteuse with keen insights into modern life.
- Alexander Chancellor asks why everyone hates SUVs, why dictators love gardening so much and if the swinging sixties ever actually happened
- Then on the following evening, November 1, it will be the turn of the adults to come together and enjoy a swinging 60's night.
- Will they manage to mature, in tandem, into a team capable of bringing silverware back to Ayrshire or will the swinging sixties remain, in perpetuity, as the halcyon era?
- Wasn't Sellers just living out the cultural leap that the entire world made between the repressed 50s and the swinging 60s?
- For all these reasons the pill has long been credited not only as a vital ingredient in the rise of feminism but a precursor to the swinging Sixties, the tool that enabled a generation to throw caution to the wind.
- The fashion entrepreneur Michael Pearce grappled with this question when he decided to relaunch Biba, the iconic swinging London label that defined the hippie era.
- No episode more graphically conveys the pent-up longing of those curiously shadowed and elusive days we lived through between the end of the war and the birth of swinging Britain.
- The layout fuses a pastiche of 90s chrome and 70s retro with a swinging 60's colour scheme of greens, burgundies and blues.
- Our perception of the swinging decade has inevitably been shaped by what has happened in the world since then.
- Living in one of the many urban slums of the Capital far away from the swinging nightlife of the city that don't make it to the glossy pages, being single is not associated with choice.
- Hollywood, 1952: DaVinci Clothing is born and quickly becomes the style of choice for members of the swinging Rat Pack.
Synonyms in fashion, in vogue, voguish, popular, up to date, bang up to date, up to the minute, modern, all the rage, modish, trendsetting 3informal Engaging in group sex or the swapping of sexual partners within a group, especially on a habitual basis. Example sentencesExamples - Feeling that life has passed him by, and wanting to join the sexual revolution of the swinging '60's, Barney decides he must have an affair.
- Those of us who can recall a time when Lava lamps were taken seriously know that the aesthetic of the swinging '60s is particularly vulnerable.
- In one episode, Butch's elderly parents come clean about their swinging antics during the Korean War.
- ‘They just thought Ruby was this swinging party chick, boozing it up with tons of boyfriends’.
- George Street comes lined with boutiques, and the newest landmarks of swinging Edinburgh are clustered here.
- Marriage was indoctrinated to us as the norm when growing up and I was growing up during the swinging sixties and seventies, so there were very mixed messages!
- He is supposed to be a randy and swinging gentleman spy.
- I was brought up in the frigid fifties; by the time the swinging sixties started I was married and had missed it.
- A swinging married couple strikes Prudie as a pair of sluts with matching wedding rings.
noun ˈswɪŋɪŋˈswɪŋɪŋ mass noun1The action of moving back and forth or from side to side while suspended or on an axis. all clocks used to keep time by the swinging of a pendulum 2informal The practice of engaging in group sex or the swapping of sexual partners within a group, especially on a habitual basis.
Derivativesadverb The night was going swingingly well. Example sentencesExamples - Since the couples include a pompous academic and his nervous wife, a raffishly experienced, working-class duo and two covert documentary film-makers, we assume that not all will go swingingly.
- Aside from the odd spell in jail, things go swingingly until the Eighties and an airport heist, following which the trio fall apart.
- His sets usually offer a swingingly good variety of big band tracks.
- Dawkins likeable voice and solid staccato guitar bursts combine with the talents of an excellent band to deliver a swingingly good album.
Definition of swinging in US English: swingingadjectiveˈswiNGiNGˈswɪŋɪŋ 1Moving back and forth or from side to side while suspended or on an axis. an old mahogany grandfather clock with a swinging pendulum 2informal Lively, exciting, and fashionable. 一个令人心动的旅游胜地。 激动人心的60年代。 Example sentencesExamples - The fashion entrepreneur Michael Pearce grappled with this question when he decided to relaunch Biba, the iconic swinging London label that defined the hippie era.
- Then on the following evening, November 1, it will be the turn of the adults to come together and enjoy a swinging 60's night.
- Living in one of the many urban slums of the Capital far away from the swinging nightlife of the city that don't make it to the glossy pages, being single is not associated with choice.
- Set among peace-loving forest dwellers in the swinging 60s the lively production even features a guest appearance by The King himself, Elvis.
- The layout fuses a pastiche of 90s chrome and 70s retro with a swinging 60's colour scheme of greens, burgundies and blues.
- For all these reasons the pill has long been credited not only as a vital ingredient in the rise of feminism but a precursor to the swinging Sixties, the tool that enabled a generation to throw caution to the wind.
- Will they manage to mature, in tandem, into a team capable of bringing silverware back to Ayrshire or will the swinging sixties remain, in perpetuity, as the halcyon era?
- Alexander Chancellor asks why everyone hates SUVs, why dictators love gardening so much and if the swinging sixties ever actually happened
- Thursday is Sixties Night, when we will all sit round and try to remember what happened during that swinging decade.
- No episode more graphically conveys the pent-up longing of those curiously shadowed and elusive days we lived through between the end of the war and the birth of swinging Britain.
- Frost plays acoustic guitar and delivers her breathy vocals with a retro cool, a swinging '60s chanteuse with keen insights into modern life.
- Our perception of the swinging decade has inevitably been shaped by what has happened in the world since then.
- Hollywood, 1952: DaVinci Clothing is born and quickly becomes the style of choice for members of the swinging Rat Pack.
- Wasn't Sellers just living out the cultural leap that the entire world made between the repressed 50s and the swinging 60s?
- The couple first met at a church youth group 40 years ago, and actually started going out together at a Valentine's dance back in the swinging 60s.
Synonyms in fashion, in vogue, voguish, popular, up to date, bang up to date, up to the minute, modern, all the rage, modish, trendsetting 3informal Engaging in group sex or the swapping of sexual partners within a group, especially on a habitual basis. Example sentencesExamples - George Street comes lined with boutiques, and the newest landmarks of swinging Edinburgh are clustered here.
- ‘They just thought Ruby was this swinging party chick, boozing it up with tons of boyfriends’.
- A swinging married couple strikes Prudie as a pair of sluts with matching wedding rings.
- He is supposed to be a randy and swinging gentleman spy.
- I was brought up in the frigid fifties; by the time the swinging sixties started I was married and had missed it.
- In one episode, Butch's elderly parents come clean about their swinging antics during the Korean War.
- Marriage was indoctrinated to us as the norm when growing up and I was growing up during the swinging sixties and seventies, so there were very mixed messages!
- Feeling that life has passed him by, and wanting to join the sexual revolution of the swinging '60's, Barney decides he must have an affair.
- Those of us who can recall a time when Lava lamps were taken seriously know that the aesthetic of the swinging '60s is particularly vulnerable.
nounˈswiNGiNGˈswɪŋɪŋ 1The action of moving back and forth or from side to side while suspended or on an axis. all clocks used to keep time by the swinging of a pendulum 2informal The practice of engaging in group sex or the swapping of sexual partners within a group, especially on a habitual basis.
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