Flit

/flɪt/ · noun

Meaning

A fluttering or darting movement..

Definitions by Sense

1. A fluttering or darting movement.
2. A sudden departure from a property.
3. (physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
4. (dated, slang) A homosexual.
5. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
6. To move quickly from one location to another.
7. (physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
8. (UK, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).

Example Sentences

I did a flit, as the landlord was due to arrive to collect the rent.

let's do a moonlight flit, if the loanshark catches us here tomorrow without the money to pay our debts, he'll break our fingers.

My computer just had a flit.

The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway.

A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […]

There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.

By their means it became a received opinion, that the souls of men departing this life, do flit out of one body into some other.

The chevalier's manner was now completely altered; and Francesca wondered within herself that he could be so amusing, as he exerted himself to describe the various visitors who flitted to and fro.

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• flits
• flitting
• flitted
• more flit
• most flit

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