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
This man saw and knew the artist’s danger, and meant to warn him, but his horse unfortunately put one of its feet into a hole, and sent him flying head over heels through the air.
From Away in the Wilderness by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
The doves of the minaret—called Imams, because they never leave the mosque or cease to prostrate themselves, flying head downwards—began to wheel and cry plaintively.
From The Golden Silence by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
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