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- n an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
- v give a thrashing to; beat hard
- v move like a flail; thresh about
Her arms were flailing
- The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord-stripping song Lukin, restrained and dreamy on the ballad Off He Goes and fuzzily philosophical on .
- When he catches someone looking him over, he throws both hands in the air, does a funny foot-flail-in-place thing, turns around and jogs across the street until he's in front of .
- McCain laughs, smirks, virtually reclines in victory lap while Romney and two other guys flail to no end.