flying head

noun

, Computers.

1. a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flying head¹

First recorded in 2010–15

Example Sentences

Incontinently he was flying head over heels through the air at the rate of dozens of miles a minute.

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Just so I peeped out, and was dimly seen, through a wild, flying head of hair.

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Once he was knocked over by a hooked one under the jaw, but in the next round he sent the Arab literally flying head over heels.

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I remember how we all went flying head first into a snow drift.

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We paint them now in the form of a flying head, with two small wings below the ears.

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