hurls

Verb

hurl (third-person singular simple present hurls, present participle hurling, simple past and past participle hurled)

1. (transitive) To throw (something) with force.
   • Thou shalt have Preists immers’t in lust and gluttony
     And bishops three times married, thy cathedrals
     The Seats where Prayer and hospitality
     Should dwel, shall be the taverns
     Where Drunken bowles incessantly goe round
     In leud debauch and midnight dice are hurld,
     The beds wherein the wearied Pilgrim...a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Fragment”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, pages...

   Synonyms:

   chuck, fling, bung, cast, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, jerk

2. (transitive) To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
   • The gangs hurled abuse at each other.
3. (intransitive) To participate in the sport of hurling.
   • Their cause was helped after the senior footballers were unexpectedly dumped out of the running for the Sam Maguire, meaning Aidan Walsh is available to hurl full-time with the young Rebels -- Walsh scored 1-1 in the semi-final victory over reigning All-Ireland champions Tipperary.2011 August 3, Donnchadh Boyle, “Egan targets Rebel success to rescue poor season”, in Irish Independent
4. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
   • I shake and bake the world
     Rearrange like the chemical Jheri curl, drink til I hurl1995, Nine, “Da Fundamentalz”, in Nine Livez

   Synonyms:

   throw up, bait, barf, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, bork, bow down before the porcelain god

5. (obsolete, transitive) To twist or turn.
   • On Nicias a philosopher having his shoes stolen from him, may they, said he, fit his feet that took them away. A wish at the first view very harmless, but there was that in it which poisoned his charity into a malicious revenge. For he himself had hurled or crooked feet, so that in effect he wished...1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times
6. (obsolete) To move rapidly with a noise; to whirl.

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