Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having no attachments or ties; free to do as one pleases.
Wiktionary
- adj. Tending to travel or do as one pleases.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. without ties to a particular location; free to roam; wandering.
- adj. without dependents or responsibilities.
- adj. having no commitments or restrictions.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. free to go or do as one pleases
Examples
“These are industries the authors define as "footloose" - they can locate almost anywhere.”
“The New York Times once described as a footloose childhood.”
“So I have had the song 'footloose' in my head for the last week and a half, and little dancing men have been prancing around my mindscape the whole time.”
“It could have been that my subconscious-which was kind of footloose at the time-just seized on the available props out of habit Later, though, I had cause to wonder.”
Sign of the Unicorn
“Mr. Rockwell, 40, who has become a beloved, chameleonic character actor thanks to his roles in movies like Safe Men, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Frost/Nixon (not to mention his weirdly seductive turn in Charlie’s Angels), grew up the son of two actors in what The New York Times once described as a footloose childhood.”
“PeopleOkies say they weren't as fancy free as 'footloose' characters”
“Dapes in Cuba (1979) "was, after all, a kind of footloose 007".”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“Imtech and PlantLab: high-tech CSR nurseries for energy-saving and sustainable 'footloose' production of flowers, plants, vegetables and fruit”
“Bosch and PlantLab are carrying out technical cultivation research into the further development of this high-tech and energy-saving solution for the sustainable 'footloose' production of flowers, plants, vegetables and fruit.”
“This will lead to the creation of innovative CSR nurseries that will allow efficient and sustainable 'footloose' (i.e. at any given location) production of plants.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘footloose’.
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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anatomopeia
Sounds like you are .........
green-fingered, lily-livered, yellow-bellied, bleary-eyed, hare-brained, loose-tongued, tongue-tied, sure-footed, two-faced, double-jointed, light-fingered, bone idle and 71 more...
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Amazing words used by Paul Keating
shellback, spiv, glib, ordinary, recalcitrant, dash capability, footloose
maesepedro a very appealing physical and emotional state, but the word itself is tarnished in my own mind by the horrendous 80s film... Dec 14, 2007