footloose

adjective

foot·​loose ˈfu̇t-ˌlüs How to pronounce footloose (audio)
: having no ties : free to move about

Examples of footloose in a Sentence

When she was 20, she was footloose and fancy-free, with no family or serious career to tie her down. after having been chained for so long, the suddenly footloose dog ran helter-skelter about the yard
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Defiant and determined to get back home on his own to his mother and grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, George encounters real danger as a distraught Rita tries to find her footloose son. Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024 The footloose couple performed on the opening night of the Symphony of Dance tour in Melbourne, Fl. Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2024 Huppert plays a footloose and intense French woman at large in Korea and vaguely making ends meet as an untrained language tutor with eccentric methods. Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024 This anthology is a footloose excavation of Muslim food writing foraged from some of South Asia’s best writers, with a recipe tailing each essay. Meher Mirza, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for footloose 

Word History

First Known Use

1650, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of footloose was in 1650

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“Footloose.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footloose. Accessed 12 Dec. 2024.

Kids Definition

footloose

adjective
foot·​loose -ˌlüs How to pronounce footloose (audio)
: having no ties : free to roam

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