Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free; untrammeled; disengaged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having no commitments or restrictions.
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Examples
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The antihero narrator is an unconvincing foot-loose screw-loose character who answers to the name Matt Prior.
From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating 2011
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If I was young and foot-loose, I'd ask nothing better than to go out with your turn.
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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More important, newcomers, foot-loose and fancy free, will survey global opportunities, and shun the multiple layers of bureaucracy awaiting them in the EU.
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I'm wrapping up that job now, and trying to find my replacement so I can resign with honor. ; and then I'll be back to my foot-loose and fancy free play-in-SL all day mode.
Jopsy Pendragon's particles - the most fitting way to bring in a New Year - Happy 2008, everyone! Bettina Tizzy 2007
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I'm wrapping up that job now, and trying to find my replacement so I can resign with honor. ; and then I'll be back to my foot-loose and fancy free play-in-SL all day mode.
Archive 2007-12-01 Bettina Tizzy 2007
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Must be NICE to be so 'foot-loose and fancy-free'.
Locked, Cocked and Ready to Rock! mike247worldwide 2005
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Far below, the last excursion boat from the Isles des Lerins floated across the bay like a Fourth-of-July balloon foot-loose in the heavens.
Tender is the Night 2003
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How else does a foot-loose kid get by in the Zone these days?
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Thus the Depression march of foot-loose men along the track tapered off, for it was hell tramping through the black-soil plains in a wet season, and with cold added to damp, pneumonia raged among those not able to sleep under warm shelter.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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To be free of the curse, and nothing to pay but the life of some foot-loose stranger?
The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
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