fling off

verb

To cast away; to disown, abandon.

“She flung off her bra.”

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Meanings

verbfling off (third-person singular simple present flings off, present participle flinging off, simple past and past participle flung off)

present singular third person flings off · participle present flinging off · participle past flung off · past flung off

  1. To cast away; to disown, abandon.

    He has flung us off; and leaves us to poverty.

    1847, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, section XXIV
  2. To throw out (a word or phrase); to exclaim.

    ‘Oh how I detest modern life!’ she flung off.

    1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XIV, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC
  3. To quickly take off (clothing)

    She flung off her bra.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbwrite quickly

Similar
dash offscratch offknock offtoss off
Broader
writecomposepen
Also see
dash offknock offtoss off

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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