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noun

a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.

a start or beginning of anything, characterized by the participant's vigor and enthusiasm and sometimes by a certain advantage over competitors: She's off to a flying start in her new job.

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Origin of flying start

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby flying start

flying saucer, flying shear, flying-spot, flying squad, flying squirrel, flying start, flying tackle, Flying Tigers, flying wedge, flying wing, fly in the face of

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And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.
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Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.
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Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.
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That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.
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The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.
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Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance.
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The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.
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I asked him to tell me how he produced a certain effect he makes in his arrangement of the ballad in Wagner's Flying Dutchman.
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These Eskimos were very fond of kite-flying, for its own sake, without reference to utility!
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There are sentimental children, as there are sentimental adults, who seem never happier than when the tears are ready to start.
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British Dictionary definitions for flying start

flying start

noun

Also called (informal): flyer (in sprinting) a start by a competitor anticipating the starting signal

a start to a race or time trial in which the competitor is already travelling at speed as he passes the starting line

any promising beginning

an initial advantage over others

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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see under get off the ground.

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