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flying start

flying start noun: an especially good start.

Noun

flying start (plural flying starts)

  1. (idiomatic) An especially good start.
    • The new restaurant got off to a flying start, packing out every night.
    • He puts the brakes on here and there down the next four miles of curves, but then opens her out so that she rocks and rolls through Totnes at a mile a minute for a flying start on the worst bank of the whole trip, five steep miles up to Rattery Box and four not so steep past Brent up to Wrangaton.1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 90
  2. The start of a sports event in which the competitors are moving at full speed when they pass the starting line or initial jump point.

flying start meaning in Bengali

flying start in Bengali

একটি বিশেষভাবে ভালো শুরু

Forms of flying start

pluralflying starts

Origin of flying start

From sailboat races, where the ships should be 'flying' under full sail as they cross the starting line.

Questions about flying start

What does flying start mean?
Flying start means an especially good start.
What is flying start in Bengali?
Flying start in Bengali is একটি বিশেষভাবে ভালো শুরু. See Flying start meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is flying start?
Flying start is a noun.
What is the plural of flying start?
The plural of flying start is flying starts.

Words near flying start in the dictionary

  1. flying squads
  2. flying squid
  3. flying squids
  4. flying squirrel
  5. flying squirrels
  6. flying start
  7. flying starts
  8. flying stationer
  9. flying stationers
  10. flying the blue pigeon
  11. flying the coop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flying start (page history and authors); flying start (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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