flits

Noun (1)

flit (plural flits)

1. A fluttering or darting movement.
2. A sudden departure from a property.
   • I did a flit, as the landlord was due to arrive to collect the rent.
3. A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
   • My computer just had a flit.
4. (dated, slang) A homosexual.
   • The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 18, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC

Noun (2)

flit (plural flits)

1. A flow control unit or flow control digit.
   • header flit

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