Definition of footloose
: having no ties : free to move about
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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
Recent Examples of footloose from the Web
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Their geographical behaviour is limited and predictable, not footloose and fancy-free.
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And in what reads like an embarrassing instance of wish-fulfillment, Rachel Carson, the Hillary figure, is safely dead, leaving Duncan footloose and free to enjoy the world’s sympathy.
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Based on the novel of the same name, the musical tells the story of an Italian war bride trapped in rural Iowa who falls in love with a footloose photographer while her family is out of town.
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Gellhorn tired of Hemingway's footloose, bar-hopping lifestyle based in Old Havana hotels.
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There was once a time not so long ago when teen television was pretty footloose and fancy free.
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Leon Lett's Super Bowl fumble The Cowboys came up with a strip sack late in Super Bowl XXVII against the Buffalo Bills, and Lett, a defensive lineman, scooped up the loose ball and ran footloose and fancy free toward the end zone.
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At the Migis Lodge on the northwestern banks of Maine’s Sebago Lake, the Porta family has been re-creating that footloose feeling for adults and their own children—with make-your-own ice cream sundae socials and Bingo nights—since 1968.
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Maybe the 2000-yard barrier is within reach for a stress-free and footloose Elliott.
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First Known Use of footloose
1650
footloose Synonyms
Synonyms
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
caged, chained, enclosed (also inclosed), immured, imprisoned, leashed, penned;
anchored, bolted, fastened, fettered, manacled, shackled, tied;
Related Words
uncaged, unchained, unfettered, unleashed;
Phrases
at large, at liberty;
FOOTLOOSE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of footloose for English Language Learners
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: able to act or move freely : not held back by ties to other people
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