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flying head

American  

noun

Computers.
  1. a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.


Etymology

Origin of flying head

First recorded in 2010–15

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He arrived standing up at home plate at the same time as the ball and sent Oakland Athletics catcher Stephen Vogt flying head over heels in the ensuing collision.

From Seattle Times Aug. 22, 2013

Crippen and Pilot Dick Scobee, 44, flying head down, closed to within 30 ft. of the infirm satellite.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thursday morning a morose Minnesotan wrote the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Well, finally we have a Governor who knows how to execute a flying head scissors!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Another butterfly went over, large and velvety, flying head to the wind, but unable to make way against it, and so carried sidelong across the current.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard

"I remember how we all went flying head first into a snow drift."

From Christmas Holidays at Merryvale The Merryvale Boys by Lester, Charles F.

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