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fly like a rock en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:simile, sarcastic, sometimes) to travel through the air with little or no benefit from aerodynamic lift
    • If the wings aren't big enough, your paper airplane will fly like a rock.
    • When students have compared the wing areas and weights by squaring and cubing the linear ratios, they correctly predict the large one will fly "like a rock"... 1970, American Association of Physics Teachers, The Physics Teacher, volumes 8–9, page 541:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
flew like a rock Tense=Past lexicographic
flying like a rock Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
flown like a rock Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
flies like a rock Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Antonyms

fly like a bird