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fly like a rock

fly like a rock verb: to travel through the air with little or no benefit from aerodynamic lift.

Verb

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. (sarcastic, sometimes, simile) to travel through the air with little or no benefit from aerodynamic lift
    • If the wings aren't big enough, your paper airplane will fly like a rock.
    • When students have compared the wing areas and weights by squaring and cubing the linear ratios, they correctly predict the large one will fly "like a rock"...1970, American Association of Physics Teachers, The Physics Teacher, volumes 8–9, page 541

Antonyms of fly like a rock

Forms of fly like a rock

third-person singular presentflies like a rock
present participleflying like a rock
pastflew like a rock
past participleflown like a rock

Questions about fly like a rock

What does fly like a rock mean?
Fly like a rock means to travel through the air with little or no benefit from aerodynamic lift.
What part of speech is fly like a rock?
Fly like a rock is a verb.
What is the past tense of fly like a rock?
The past tense of fly like a rock is flew like a rock.

Words near fly like a rock in the dictionary

  1. fly into
  2. fly into a rage
  3. fly killer
  4. fly killers
  5. fly like a bird
  6. fly like a rock
  7. fly line
  8. fly lines
  9. fly loft
  10. fly lofts
  11. fly low

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