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swung out

swung out is the simple past and past participle of swing out.

Meaning of swing out

Verb

swing out (third-person singular simple present swings out, present participle swinging out, simple past and past participle swung out)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swing, out.
    • They swing out the big light I know the drill
      But I won’t slip away from them, not until
      They bend to my will
      So I face the gaping lion’s mouth with a little grin2013 August 19, “Bend To My Will” (track 3), in Justin Currie (lyrics), Lower Reaches
  2. (Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive) To kill or seriously injure by applying the edge of a knife.
    • I was twelve years old, just playin football
      No I am swinging out yutes with the largest toola. 2023, “No hook” (2:27 from the start), Kz featured by L9 x Crasha x Cdot (lyrics)

Questions about swung out

What is swung out the simple past and past participle of?
Swung out is the simple past and past participle of swing out.

Words near swung out in the dictionary

  1. swung for
  2. swung for the fences
  3. swung into action
  4. swung off
  5. swung one's dick around
  6. swung out
  7. swung over
  8. swung round the circle
  9. swung that way
  10. swung through
  11. swungen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swung out (page history and authors); swing out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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