mis-swing

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Etymology

From mis- +‎ swing.

Verb

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

  1. To swing incorrectly.
    • 2011, Mark Kurlansky, Hank Greenberg: The Hero who Didn't Want to be One, page 117:
      And Hank taught the youngster to deliberately mis-swing at a certain pitch early in the game; later, in a decisive situation, the pitcher might give him the same pitch again, and he could slam it.
    • 2012, Rick Nelson, As I Remember It:
      It was winter, with some snow on the ground, but we were making good progress until I mis-swung my axe, bounced it off the tree, and buried it in my leg.
    • 2015, Johnny D. Boggs, South by Southwest: A Western Story:
      I seen one man from the 16th nigh chop his foot off when he mis-swung his axe.

Noun

mis-swing (plural mis-swings)

  1. A botched swing
    • 2012, Philip K Dick, Jonathan Lethem, Pamela Jackson, The Exegesis of Philip K Dick:
      Eckhart also speaks of this happening to a man who has misstepped (vertreten, as I recall); God, then, corrects the mis-swing of the man and brings him back to the Tao or Logos.
    • 2019, Joanna Foat, Lumberjills: Britain's Forgotten Army:
      So the stance was crucial, because a mis-swing or glancing blow off the wood could veer towards a leading leg.
    • 2023, Angela Slatter, The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings:
      And to her advantage, his mis-swing upset his equilibrium, and so gains her a few seconds.
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