Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no attachments or ties; free to do as one pleases.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective without ties to a particular location; free to roam; wandering.
- adjective without dependents or responsibilities.
- adjective having no commitments or restrictions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
travel or do as one pleases. - adjective nautical A
sail that is not properlysecured at thebottom .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective free to go or do as one pleases
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Examples
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These are industries the authors define as "footloose" - they can locate almost anywhere.
latimes.com - News 2010
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The New York Times once described as a footloose childhood.
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The New York Times once described as a footloose childhood.
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The New York Times once described as a footloose childhood.
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So I have had the song 'footloose' in my head for the last week and a half, and little dancing men have been prancing around my mindscape the whole time.
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It could have been that my subconscious-which was kind of footloose at the time-just seized on the available props out of habit Later, though, I had cause to wonder.
Sign of the Unicorn Zelazny, Roger 1975
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Mr. Rockwell, 40, who has become a beloved, chameleonic character actor thanks to his roles in movies like Safe Men, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Frost/Nixon (not to mention his weirdly seductive turn in Charlie’s Angels), grew up the son of two actors in what The New York Times once described as a footloose childhood.
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PeopleOkies say they weren't as fancy free as 'footloose' characters
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Dapes in Cuba (1979) "was, after all, a kind of footloose 007".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Imtech and PlantLab: high-tech CSR nurseries for energy-saving and sustainable 'footloose' production of flowers, plants, vegetables and fruit
maesepedro commented on the word footloose
a very appealing physical and emotional state, but the word itself is tarnished in my own mind by the horrendous 80s film...
December 14, 2007