flighting

Verb

flight (third-person singular simple present flights, present participle flighting, simple past and past participle flighted)

1. To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
2. (broadly, transitive) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.
   • Riyad Mahrez flighted the free-kick that followed to the far post and Morgan, with not much finesse but plenty of desire, bundled the ball over the line. Cue pandemonium in the stands.2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian

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