highland fling

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   a vigorous Scottish reel

   Broaderreel

Questions about highland fling

What does highland fling mean?

highland fling means "a vigorous Scottish reel".

Is highland fling a common word?

highland fling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.