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    [Adjective]  | "flail*ing" | \ ˈflā-liŋ \


    1: moving, swinging, or beating wildly like a flail —used especially of a person or a person's limbs

    2: beset by difficulties : struggling

    3: clumsy or ineffectual


    Origin: 1882 ;

    [Verb]  | "flail" 


    1: to strike with or as if with a flail

    2: to move, swing, or beat as if wielding a flail

    3: to thresh (grain) with a flail


    Origin: 15th century ;

     See: ;

    [Verb]  | "flailing" 


    1: to move or cause to move with a striking motion;


      * e.g., " ... started to flail his arms wildly when he spied a bat in the house "



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    2: to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible;


      * e.g., " ... gruesome evidence that the prisoner had been flailed "



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    [Verb]  | "flail" 


    1: to move or cause to move with a striking motion;


      * e.g., " ... started to flail his arms wildly when he spied a bat in the house "



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    2: to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible;


      * e.g., " ... gruesome evidence that the prisoner had been flailed "



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     [ "flailing" ]

    1: This term is generally used to describe the activities and motions of a person high on meth trying to do three things at once, none of which matter in the real world.

      * e.g.,  ... "Heila, quit flailing and either get dressed to go out or make me a drink, I'm getting bored watching you walk back and forth lining forks up on the kitchen counter." 

     [ "flailing" ]

    1: Slang for getting really high on crystal meth

      * e.g.,  ... hey were are flailing tonight, lets get flailed! 


     [ "flailing" ]

    2: to do meth, the act of doing meth

     [ "flailing" ]

    1: the act of or being high on crack..also sometimes coke

      * e.g.,  ... i didnt go to sleep.we were flailing all lastnite 

     [ "flail" ]

    1: To be extremely high on meth. To the point where the person is trying to take apart and put together working electronics/gadgets while having 6 conversations with different people at once and not accomplishing ANYTHING, generally resulting in at least 1 person getting very angry.

      * e.g.,  ... 1)FLAIL out wit ya tail out 

     [ "Flailing" ]

    1: 1) To begin a, sometimes random and usually pointless task/project, with the full determination and intensity of perfection and completion. When high on crystal meth.

      * e.g.,  ... 1a) He was flailing with duct-tape and made a pouch to hold Q-Tips in. 


     [ "Flailing" ]

    2: 2) Spending an obscene amount of time on a task/project that usually would take no time at all to complete and/or would seem meaningless/pointless to someone else. When high on crystal meth

      * e.g.,  ... 1b) I spent all night flailing on the computer coming up with these definitions. (Hardly pointless) 


     [ "Flailing" ]

    3: 3) To answer someones question but not fully explaining what one was doing for a long period of time. When high on crystal meth

      * e.g.,  ... 2) John was flailing for 5 hours making something to hold up a book while he typed, even though he has a book holder. 


     [ "Flailing" ]

    4: 4) When going through a bin/basket/container full of anything to find what you are looking for; or for nothing in particular in hopes to find something useful. When high on crystal meth

      * e.g.,  ... 3) "Holy crap, where were you for the last 3 hours?" 

     [ "flail" ]

    1: (new)origin, Vancouver, BC, Canada

      * e.g.,  ... "Rob ran through the alleys digging through the dumpsters flailing the night away." 


     [ "flail" ]

    2: from the word flail, to act with abandon. Has many meanings; losing something can be called flailed, running around like a chicken with your head cut off usually when high on drugs can be called flailing, someone going crazy would be called a flailer, flail would be a bunch of random stuff that a flailer has amassed. Can also refer to wasting time.

      * e.g.,  ... "Janna faliled her backpack in that alleyway over there!" 

     [ "flail" ]

    1: v. to flail

      * e.g.,  ... "Alyssa was flailing over X-Files last night.. even though she was still speechless from reading a Lisa Edelstein interview." 


     [ "flail" ]

    2: the act of hyper speed talking about one's fandom and/or obsession. Sqeeling, clapping, gasping, obsessive behavior dizziness, speechlessness and random dancing are all symptoms.

      * e.g.,  ... Mr. Martinez's class room had enough 'the Office' paraphanalia in it that Caity suspected he was a flailing fanboy in his spare time. 

     [ "flail" ]

    1: To dance with crazy arm motions which is entertaining for both the viewer and performer!

      * e.g.,  ... She loves to flail at the Loop on Saturdays! 

     [ "Flails" ]

    1: The act of waving your hands and arms in the air, and "awing" when something cute happens, mostly done by women, which follows with the words "d'aaaw!" and "Awww!"

      * e.g.,  ... Boyfriend: I love you, more than anything in the world. 

     [ "flail" ]

    1: v.To conduct routine daily activities in a spastic manor often resulting in hilarity, expressed usually in degrees of Morley.

      * e.g.,  ... Morley: The one to which all other flail is to be compared, the nucleus of flail. The one who can flail standind still. 


     [ "flail" ]

    2: n.A common activity becomes a flail when the expected outcome is replaced with one that involves any number of clumsy events. Drugs, Alcohol, or Caffine are sometimes but not always involved in a flail. It is often in the nature of the individual performing the fail, sometimes their most defining trait.

      * e.g.,  ... "*crash* *bang* *clash* -- Morley's speakers just flew off his desk and out of his office! What a flailer." 

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