flyaway

noun 5adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.

2

Flighty; frivolous

3

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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