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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | casual throw |
| Synonyms: | cast, chuck, firing, heave, hurl, launching, lob, peg, pitch, shot, slinging, toss |
| Main Entry: | adultery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extramarital affair |
| Synonyms: | affair, carrying on, cheating, extracurricular activity, fling, fornication, hanky-panky, immorality, infidelity, matinee, playing around, relationship, thing*, two-timing |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illicit sexual relationship |
| Synonyms: | affaire, amour, carrying on, extracurricular activity, fling, goings-on, hanky-panky, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, playing around, relationship, rendezvous, romance, thing together, two-timing |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plan of attack, resolution |
| Synonyms: | attitude, concept, course, crack, fling, go*, idea, lick, manner, means, method, mode, modus operandi, new wrinkle, offer, procedure, program, shot, stab, style, technique, way, whack, wrinkle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | attempt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | try, effort |
| Synonyms: | all one's got, attack, bid*, crack*, dry run, endeavor, exertion, experiment, fling, go, header, lick*, one's all, one's darnedest, one's level best, pursuit, shot, stab, striving, struggle, trial, try, tryout, undertaking, venture, whack, workout |
| Antonyms: | certainty, laziness, success |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | binge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spree |
| Synonyms: | affair, bender, blind*, bout*, carousal, compotation, drunk*, fling, jag, orgy, toot |
| Antonyms: | saving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a throw to the side |
| Synonyms: | casting, ejection, expulsion, fling, flinging, heave, heaving, hurl, hurling, launching, lob, lobbing, pitch, pitching, projection, propulsion, shooting, sling, slinging, thrust, thrusting, toss, tossing |
| Antonyms: | catch, keeping, retention |
| Main Entry: | crack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attempt to do something |
| Synonyms: | fling, go, opportunity, pop, shot, stab, try, whack, whirl |
| Main Entry: | dalliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | love affair |
| Synonyms: | a little on the side, affair, amorous play, carrying on, fling, fooling around, frolicking, hanky-panky, messing around, relationship, seduction, toying, working late at office |
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