flying head
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of flying head
First recorded in 2010–15
Example Sentences
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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
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
Crippen and Pilot Dick Scobee, 44, flying head down, closed to within 30 ft. of the infirm satellite.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, is a man likely to interpret his sensations when he is flying head foremost from a belfry, or has just learned that he has won two hundred thousand?
From Love by Constance Garnett
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 Richard Jefferies
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