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Highland fling

Highland fling noun: a solo dance of the Scottish Highlands.

Noun

Highland fling (plural Highland flings)

  1. A solo dance of the Scottish Highlands.
    • When Dandy Dinmont, after executing two or three caprioles, and cutting the Highland-fling, by way of ridicule of his wife's anxiety, at last deigned to sit down, and commit his round, black, shaggy bullet of a head to her inspection.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 3, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and...
    • She had never danced a step in her life, but that experienced girl capering with circus grace in the Highland fling would, she knew, be as nothing to her given such inspiriting music.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185

Forms of Highland fling

pluralHighland flings

Questions about Highland fling

What does Highland fling mean?
Highland fling means a solo dance of the Scottish Highlands.
What part of speech is Highland fling?
Highland fling is a noun.
What is the plural of Highland fling?
The plural of Highland fling is Highland flings.

Words near Highland fling in the dictionary

  1. Highland County
  2. Highland cow
  3. highland dance
  4. highland dances
  5. Highland dancing
  6. Highland fling
  7. Highland flings
  8. Highland Gaelic
  9. Highland games
  10. Highland Mills
  11. Highland Papua

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