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footloose

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Word definitions for footloose in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES footloose and fancy-free ▪ Ten years ago I was footloose and fancy-free . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Europe is filled with footloose students every summer. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I suspect that most of the inhabitants ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Footloose is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is the G.I. Joe team's infantry trooper, and debuted in 1985.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "free to move the feet, unshackled," from foot (n.) + loose . Figurative sense of "free to act as one pleases" is from 1873.

Usage examples of footloose.

And at that time every footloose wanderer and entrepreneur in the Galaxy will start for the Eryx Region to make his fortune.

He learned that a band of Footloose travelers had passed through the environs of the port town the previous week and been chased off the land on which they had traditionally camped these past twenty years and more, and that in their wake the wife of the merchant Paulo Foring had prematurely given birth to a monstera child with a huge head and wings instead of arms, that had torn her apart as it breached, and that she would probably not survive.

It was a port and customhouse, a tangle of shipyards, storage drogues, quarantines, and social houses, catering to the vices of the footloose, the isolated, and the estranged.

More as an academic exercise than out of real interest, I inquired of the reptilian GM and my chef de cuisine what they thought would happen here, now that there were fifty or so longtime loyalists footloose and fancy free and looking for work elsewhere in the company.

He had been footloose and fancy free, and when asked if he would accept such an appointment he had said that he would, but at the time he had not dreamed O'Connor was serious.

After leaving Durban, we spent a twomonth vacation roaming footloose and fancy free all over the east part of Africa, and this glorious country must be among some of the most spectacular on the face of the earth.

Now, and let me stress this, around one hundred and fifty bodies put out like pairs of pants and dresses for the use of-one deep breath-over three thousand footloose egos.

Maybe we can find a footloose seamstress before we take the railroad train&mdash.

He liked women, and this one in particular whetted his interest, with her single state, her sassiness, occasional cursing and footloose ways.