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swingy

American  
[swing-ee] / ˈswɪŋ i /

adjective

swingier, swingiest
  1. characterized by swing; lively; swinging.

    swingy dance tunes.


Etymology

Origin of swingy

First recorded in 1910–15; swing 1 + -y 1


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There’s a record on there called “All I Can Take” with the swingy Lisa Stansfield “All Around the World” drums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

The swingy jazz number was one of the most-performed songs of the decade, and the sonic location where jazz and pop collided.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

"You invented that swingy thing," the Queen is said to have remarked, when giving him his knighthood.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022

In the swingy 47th Legislative District, where a crucial state Senate seat is vacant, Claudia Kauffman is holding off Satwinder Kaur to represent the Democrats against Republican Bill Boyce in November.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2022

A four-piece band was playing a swingy number for couples dancing on the wooden deck.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

All decades of pop music swing between trends and fads—but the 2010s was swingier than most.

From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2019

Last week he paid a post-midnight visit to a Manhattan discotheque called Nepantha, where the younger, swingier set had paid $50 a head for the Humphrey cause.

From Time Magazine Archive

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is not up for re-election in 2020, but he hails from perhaps the nation’s swingiest presidential state.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2019

Lauren Baer faces a tough task on Election Day: She’s a first-time Democratic candidate for Congress vying against a veteran Republican in “one of the swingiest swing districts” in southeastern Florida, as she puts it.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2018

Today, it’s the swingiest of swing states, and the land of both Ferguson and Rush Limbaugh.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2017

So, maybe the polling outlets don't have a firm grasp of where the swingiest voters in a swing state actually live.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2016

But no one who attended it would ever forget that his visit precipitated the swingiest wingding the White House had seen in years.

From Time Magazine Archive

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