free-swinging

[ free-swing-ing ]

adjective

1. recklessly daring in action or style:

   free-swinging stock market speculators.

Other Words From

• free-swinger noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of free-swinging¹

First recorded in 1945–50; free(wheeling) + swinging

Example Sentences

Can he avoid being knocked out by the free-swinging Newt Gingrich?

From The Daily Beast

The pendulum was a free swinging pendulum for 59 sec., and the increase of the arc could scarcely be detected.

From Project Gutenberg

He could not mistake that free-swinging, level, deliberate stride, with the head so finely up.

From Project Gutenberg