"fly like a rock" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-fly like a rock.ogg [Australia] Forms: flies like a rock [present, singular, third-person], flying like a rock [participle, present], flew like a rock [past], flown like a rock [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|fly<,,flew,flown> like a rock}} fly like a rock (third-person singular simple present flies like a rock, present participle flying like a rock, simple past flew like a rock, past participle flown like a rock)
  1. (simile, sometimes sarcastic) to travel through the air with little or no benefit from aerodynamic lift Tags: sarcastic, sometimes

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