swang

Arced through air

Swang is a dialectal or nonstandard past tense of swing, used in some regional American speech instead of swung: He swang the bat and missed.

In hip-hop slang, particularly Southern, to swang means to drive slowly while swerving or showing off, often in a vehicle with custom features: We swang through the neighborhood in the Cadillac.

motion

arc

Curved line segment

momentum · pivot · sweep · oscillate · back-and-forth · to-and-fro · hang · dangle · suspend · rock

dance

jive

Swing-era dance or bunk

partner · twirl · spin · dip · step · move · groove · sway · bounce · hop

music

jazz

Improvisational American music genre

blues · brass · saxophone · trumpet · trombone · clarinet · upbeat · syncopation · improvisation · bandstand

slang

swerve

Abrupt directional change

  • flexTense a muscle
  • stuntDangerous feat for spectacle
  • cruiseLeisurely ocean voyage

ride · whip · roll · pull up · show off · style · floss · drip · swag · lean

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Opposites
grammatical register

swangswung

Moved in curve

proper grammar

motion/action

swangfroze

Became solid or still

stayed put · stopped · rested

Family

swing, swinging, swung, swings, swinger, swingers, swingable

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