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

  1. (not-comparable)Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
  2. (not-comparable)Flighty; frivolous
  3. (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

  1. 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.”
  2. 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.”
  3. A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.
  4. 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.”
  5. 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.”

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Etymology

From fly + away.

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