flyover
(US) A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes.
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Born ~1905 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
After a couple of years with only single common whitethroat, today 5 males were spread across my Leopard Hill, Worcester patch 😃. Also had a flyover little egret. A Painted Lady was a nice surprise. @worcswt.bsky.soc…
People in these flyover states think that guys like Trump from NYC cares about them. He doesn’t, in fact he looks down on you. But you’re suffering and he makes you feel heard. You are suffering because you keep voti…
#20yrsago Danny Hillis on how games are(n’t) like a theme park web.archive.org/web/20060513... #20yrsago Mission Impossible opening marked by anti-Scientology flyover web.archive.org/web/20060514... 7/
It would be great to acknowledge that Hammersmith Bridge should never be a car bridge again and the flyover should be demolished without replacement, but baby steps.
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(US) A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes.
If Democrats end up flipping state houses in places Trump won in 2016, they will have proved themselves capable of winning in the places coastal elites derisively refer to as “flyover America.”
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(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, Philippines) A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption.
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.
“After a couple of years with only single common whitethroat, today 5 males were spread across my Leopard Hill, Worcester patch 😃. Also had a flyover little egret. A Painted Lady was a nice surprise. @worcswt.bsky.social #worcsbirds”
— Bluesky· May 2026“People in these flyover states think that guys like Trump from NYC cares about them. He doesn’t, in fact he looks down on you. But you’re suffering and he makes you feel heard. You are suffering because you keep voting for people who keeps hurting you.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“#20yrsago Danny Hillis on how games are(n’t) like a theme park web.archive.org/web/20060513... #20yrsago Mission Impossible opening marked by anti-Scientology flyover web.archive.org/web/20060514... 7/”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US) A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (British).
Look closely at the commemorative flight suit patch for Super Bowl LX and you’ll notice what appears to be an anomaly: while the military aircraft flyover on Sunday is set to include Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers and F-15C Eagle fighters …
“It would be great to acknowledge that Hammersmith Bridge should never be a car bridge again and the flyover should be demolished without replacement, but baby steps.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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- flyover state75%
(US, mildly, pejorative) Any state of the United States that is often passed over by intercoastal or transcontinental flights, rather than being a popular destination.
- overpass72%
To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road.
- flyover country71%
(US, sometimes, pejorative) The parts of the United States between the East and West Coasts.