Flyaway

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free..

Definitions by Sense

1. Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
2. Flighty; frivolous
3. (of hair) Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.
4. A stray hair that is difficult to style.
5. Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.
6. (gymnastics) A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.
7. (television) A portable satellite television antenna.
8. A situation where an operator loses control of a drone.

Example Sentences

[...] 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 [...].

Consequently, there is a swell of hair care regimens, including serums, gels, balms, creams and sprays promising moisture-rich curls, without frizz or flyaways.

But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.

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.

"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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• fly-away
• flyaways

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