"fly low" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-fly low.ogg [Australia] Forms: flies low [present, singular, third-person], flying low [participle, present], flew low [past], flown low [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|fly<,,flew,flown> low}} fly low (third-person singular simple present flies low, present participle flying low, simple past flew low, past participle flown low)
  1. (idiomatic) to have one's fly (zipper) undone. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to have one's fly undone): hevoset karkaa [phrase] (Finnish), att gå på tjejkalas (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-fly_low-en-verb-tGFvwHx1 Disambiguation of "to have one's fly undone": 92 8
  2. (idiomatic) to fly under the radar; to act in a discreet or sneaky fashion Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-fly_low-en-verb-jAofRn3j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 90

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fly low meaning in English (1.8kB)

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