"swing both ways" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-swing both ways.ogg [Australia] Forms: swings both ways [present, singular, third-person], swinging both ways [participle, present], swung both ways [participle, past], swung both ways [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|swing<,,swung> both ways}} swing both ways (third-person singular simple present swings both ways, present participle swinging both ways, simple past and past participle swung both ways)
  1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) To be bisexual. Tags: euphemistic, idiomatic Synonyms: be bisexual Translations (bisexual): être à voile et à vapeur (French), auf beiden Ufern stehen (German)
    Sense id: en-swing_both_ways-en-verb-RzNoBNT6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English euphemisms

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for swing both ways meaning in English (2.0kB)

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