flyaway
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 7
Definition of flyaway
8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- (not-comparable)Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
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adj
- (not-comparable)Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
- (not-comparable)Flighty; frivolous
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(not-comparable)Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.
“[...] and Lorene mumbled thanks, and slid out of the booth again, a big boned, pretty girl with a tiny pearl glinting above her eye and flyaway streaked hair [...].”
noun
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A stray hair that is difficult to style.
“Consequently, there is a swell of hair care regimens, including serums, gels, balms, creams and sprays promising moisture-rich curls, without frizz or flyaways.”
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Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.
“But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.”
- A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.
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A portable satellite television antenna.
“Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities.”
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A situation where an operator loses control of a drone.
“"But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From fly + away.
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