Throw with great force

The answer

HURL

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HURL answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2019. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• HEAVE (1 uses in xd)
• YEET (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for HURL

Every other clue in this collection answered by HURL, most used first.

• Fling - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Throw - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Pitch - used 44 times, most recently in 2022
• Throw hard - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Fling with force - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Throw forcefully - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Throw with force - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Chuck - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Toss - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Cast - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Fling forcefully - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Sling - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Catapult - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Make a pitch - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Take the mound - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• A Great Lake - ERIE, used 316 times
• One of the Great Lakes - ERIE, used 258 times
• Unit of force - DYNE, used 242 times
• Tennis great Arthur - ASHE, used 225 times
• Prefix with dynamic - AERO, used 152 times
• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times

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