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Flyover
noun, slang
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Noun
- 1 A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (British). US
- 2 a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground wordnet
- 3 A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption. Commonwealth, Ireland, Philippines, UK
"They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the electric control or sub-stations; and a large electric car shed."
- 4 bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels wordnet
- 5 A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes. US
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- 6 Middle America, noncoastal America. US, attributive, informal
"Boom Town may not be a definitive text—save that for the historians—but it’s a significant update, one that exchanges the dusty pop-cultural clichés of a “flyover” city for the spark of a sincerely enlightening place."
Etymology
Deverbal from fly over.
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