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Highland flings

Highland flings is the plural of Highland fling.

Meaning of Highland fling

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...

Questions about Highland flings

What is Highland flings the plural of?
Highland flings is the plural of Highland fling.

Words near Highland flings in the dictionary

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

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