sling off

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Related to sling off: well-received, Working order, reduce to

sling off

informal Austral and NZ to laugh or jeer (at)

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By the time I got the sling off and could draw my bow, they had had enough and were gone.

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She said: "I've just taken my sling off. We had to cancel quite a few gigs, which we've never done before.

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McMahon opened Monday Night Raw and attempted to patch things up with Rousey and offered her the chance to team up, but Rousey simply ripped the sling off McMahon's injured arm from Wrestlemania and locked her in another armbar to leave medics tending to the Raw commissioner.

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Second, if you try to cast a big sunfish, bullhead, goldfish with enough weight to hold it in place, it's probably going to sling off, and if it doesn't sling off, the impact of landing stuns or injures it, making it less lively and not as attractive to flatheads.