flyaway noun 5adjective 3forms 1 noun5 •A stray hair that is difficult to style.Consequently, there is a swell of hair care regimens, including serums, gels, balms, creams and sprays promising moisture-rich curls, without frizz or flyaways. — 2007 •Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light. — 1838 •A situation where an operator loses control of a drone. •A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists. •A portable satellite television antenna. adjective3 •Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free. •Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.[...] and Lorene mumbled thanks, and slid out of the booth again, a big boned, pretty girl with a tiny pearl glinting above her eye and flyaway streaked hair [...]. — 2001 •Flighty; frivolous formsflyaways
