Meaning

noun a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice

noun a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones

noun a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel

originFrom Middle English slynge (noun), slyngen (verb), probably from Old Norse slyngja, slyngva (“to hurl”), from Proto-Germanic *slingwaną (“to worm, twist”) or compare Old English slingan (“to wind, twist”), from the same source. Compare German schlingen (“to swing, wind, twist”), Danish and Norwegian slynge), from Proto-Indo-European *slenk- (“to turn, twist”) (compare Welsh llyngyr (“worms,…

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