flyaway
Collocations
4ADJ.
own
VERB + FLYAWAY
eye
FLYAWAY + NOUN
hair, locals, slyboots
ADV.
such, such
Definitions
adj
Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
Flighty; frivolous
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — guided by whim and fancy
- flighty
- head-in-the-clouds
- scatterbrained
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
4[...] 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 [...].
WiktionaryConsequently, there is a swell of hair care regimens, including serums, gels, balms, creams and sprays promising moisture-rich curls, without frizz or flyaways.
WiktionaryBut Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.
WiktionaryUnless 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 facilitie
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