"fly without a licence" meaning in English

See fly without a licence in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: flies without a licence [present, singular, third-person], flying without a licence [participle, present], flew without a licence [past], flown without a licence [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|fly<,,flew,flown> without a licence|3=}} fly without a licence (third-person singular simple present flies without a licence, present participle flying without a licence, simple past flew without a licence, past participle flown without a licence)
  1. (informal, humorous, mostly used in continuous tenses) To inadvertently have one's flies (trouser opening) undone. Tags: humorous, informal
    Sense id: en-fly_without_a_licence-en-verb-BB7Tc9qc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 87 13
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fly, without, a, license.
    Sense id: en-fly_without_a_licence-en-verb-oMH-3J~V

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fly without a licence meaning in English (1.6kB)

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