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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

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

Just so I peeped out, and was dimly seen, through a wild, flying head of hair.

From Aunt Madge's Story by Sophie May

Two separate times in the past, while flying head first over the handlebars of my bicycle I had broken my shoulder with considerable tearing of ligaments and tendons.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon

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