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Meaning of swinging in English

swinging
adjective
  old-fashioned informal
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/ˈswɪŋ.ɪŋ/ us
/ˈswɪŋ.ɪŋ/
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exciting and fashionable:
It's a nostalgia trip back into the youth culture of the swinging 60s.
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(Definition of swinging from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

swinging | American Dictionary

swinging
adjective
us
/ˈswɪŋ·ɪŋ/
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dated slang
exciting, enjoyable, and active:
a swinging party
(Definition of swinging from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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令人興奮的, 時尚的…
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canlı, hayat dolu…
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