Definition of swings that way

swing that way

verb

• to have a particular sexual interest. Usually meaning homosexuality.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  
  Citation from "Mind Over Murder", Family Guy (TV), Season 1 Episode 4 (1999) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 02 2011.

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Other terms relating to 'swing':
start swinging	Definitions include: to begin swinging one's fists.
swing	Definitions include: to trade partners with other couples, for the purpose of sexual intercourse.
swing both ways	Definitions include: to be bisexual.
swinger	Definitions include: a member of a couple that trades partners with other couples, for the purpose of sexual intercourse.
swing for the fences	Definitions include: to try very hard.
swing it	Definitions include: to be able to do.
swing off (one's) nuts	Definitions include: obsessed with him.
swing shift	Definitions include: a work shift that takes place in the evening, usually from 4pm-midnight
Other terms relating to 'that':
a face that only a mother could love	Definitions include: an ugly face.
all that	Definitions include: superior, as good as it gets.
all that and a bag of chips	Definitions include: better than all that.
all that and a bag of Fritos	Definitions include: the best.
and all that jazz	Definitions include: et cetera.
atta	Definitions include: "that a".
attaboy	Definitions include: interjection of encouragement.
atta girl	Definitions include: interjection of encouragement.
bet that	Definitions include: to approve or agree
bite the hand that feeds	Definitions include: to do something bad to someone that takes care of one.
bugger that for a game of Soldiers	Definitions include: British expression meaning that the speaker doesn't want to do something.
bump that	Definitions include: it means to ignore, let go or pay him/her no attention.
burn that bridge	Definitions include: See burn a bridge.
change that tune	Definitions include: to change what one says about something.
copy that	Definitions include: to understand.
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Other terms relating to 'way':
around the way	Definitions include: one's home neighborhood.
arseways	Definitions include: messed up.
BTW	Definitions include: acronym for "by the way".
every which way	Definitions include: in all directions.
feel some kind of way	Definitions include: To be obviously upset by something; having obvious negative feelings about a situation is to be feeling some kind of way.
four-ways	Definitions include: the emergency lights on a car - there are four of them
go all the way	Definitions include: to succeed.
IDLYITW	Definitions include: acronym for "I don't like you in that way".
in a family way	Definitions include: pregnant.
Life is a one way mission.	Definitions include: This describes a fatalist, philosophical view of life, based upon the military slang term for a mission which is terminal.
no way	Definitions include: interjection of amazement.
no way in hell	Definitions include: an emphatic "no way".
no way Jose	Definitions include: an emphatic way of saying "no".
OMW	Definitions include: acronym for "on my way".
on the way out	Definitions include: near death.
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