It "degenerated into unseemly mud slinging between the ruling party and the opposition". American politics draws a line between "mud slinging" and defamation. The key issue is that mud slinging is not a form of perjury or libel. The two begin fighting physically, while slinging barbs at each other about their past mistakes. Just before daybreak a group of Shawnee, slinging tomahawks, attacked the sleeping men. Blasters are part of the Slugslinger's basic gear needed for slinging slugs. This is not a crazy business about slinging ink. One commandeered a whaleboat after slinging the guard into the water. Slinging flakes and the like would be acceptable under the same conditions. Spider-Man is web slinging through town and runs into Electro. The slinging action generates extra speed, but sacrifices control.