flyover
IPA: fɫˈaɪʌvɝ
noun
- (US) A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (British).
- (Britain, Hong Kong, Philippines) A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption.
- (US) A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes.
- (US, informal, attributive) Middle America, noncoastal America.
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Examples of "flyover" in Sentences
- What do those rubes in flyover country know anyway?
- Is this how New Yorkers view culture in "flyover country?"
- And what he calls flyover country is what Sarah Palin calls real America.
- Out here in flyover country the local Wally is about our only option other than a long drive.
- Good luck - a lot of us in flyover country (I'm not that far from McGreggor) are rooting and pulling for you.
- Out here in flyover country (heh) renting is mostly for the poor, students, and young people just entering the job market.
- I live in flyover country -- East Central Redneckistan, to be precise -- and I am stuck dealing with Multiplex A or Multiplex B.
- Do your really think the folks in flyover country are going to be impressed with your attempts to appease your buddies in New England?
- All of us in flyover country and industry believed you would set a standard and example that recapture, recreate, and foster the can-do spirit that was the hallmark of NASA during and through the halcyon days of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
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