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fly out

verb flies out · flying out · flew out · flied out · flown out

  1. intransitive To travel by airplane to a destination. I'm going to fly out to see you.
  2. transitive To have someone travel rapidly to a destination on an airplane. flew him out to New York
  3. of an aircraft To take off from an airfield. Near by is the RAF museum at Duxford Airfield, open at weekends, which has a large display of aircraft. Trapped there is the prototype Concorde, which flew in but can never fly out, because the runway was shortened to make way for a motorway immediately after its arrival.
  4. intransitive To rapidly emerge. Pieces flew out in all directions.
  5. intransitive To become out by hitting a fly ball which is caught. Jones flied out to right field.
  6. intransitive To fly into a rage; to become very angry. Though the lion suffered the whole time from a fever, which kept him comparatively quiet, yet he was very surly and ready to fly out on the least provocation. Once when Noah did not bring him his dinner fast enough, the noble animal gave him such a blow with his paw that the patriarch was lame for t

noun fly outs · flyout · fly-out

  1. An instance of flying out. A fly out was recorded on the scorecard.

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@misc{fly_out_2026,
  title = {fly out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fly%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}