Verb (old).—1. To cheat; to get the best of; to do (q.v.) or diddle.—Grose.
1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford, ch. xxi. Flung the governor out of a guinea.
2. (Scots).—To dance.
1790. Burns, Tam O’ Shanter. To tell how Maggie lapt and flang (A souple jaud she was, and strang).
3. (venery).—To move in the act; to back-up (q.v.). Fr., ‘frizer la queue = to wriggle the tayle (in leachering).’—Cotgrave.
1539. David Lyndsay, Three Estaitis, Works (Ed. Laing, Edinburgh, 1879). I traist sche sal find you flinging your fill.
To Fling Out, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To depart in a hurry, and, especially, in a temper.
To fling (or flap) it in one’s face, verb. phr. (prostitutes’).—To expose the person.
In a fling, adv. phr. (colloquial).—In a spasm of temper.
To have one’s fling, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To enjoy full liberty of action or conduct. Cf., High Old Time.