fling a craving

fling a craving
 v. phr.— «“Yazoo City done flung a craving on the whole world,” shouted the city’s resident humorist Jerry Clower at a town party Wednesday night.» —“Yazoo ready and waiting” by Kim Eisler Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi) July 21, 1977. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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