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Vinony

flyaway

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From fly + away.

  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

Etymology: From fly + away.

  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.”