ON THE FLY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for ON THE FLY?

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Associations of "On the fly" (30 Words)

aeronaut	Someone who operates an aircraft.
airman	A pilot or member of the crew of an aircraft, especially in an air force.
aviator	A pair of aviator sunglasses. I wear aviators but it s purely because they are practical sunglasses as opposed to being fashion accessories.
bee	An insect of a large group to which the honeybee belongs including many solitary as well as social kinds. A sewing bee.
bug	General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate. A thick green scum which crawls with bugs centipedes and worse.
butterfly	Having a two lobed shape resembling the spread wings of a butterfly. A social butterfly.
buzz	The sound of a buzzer or telephone. He buzzed the servant.
chirp	A short, sharp, high-pitched sound. Outside the crickets chirped monotonously.
cockroach	Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests.
croon	Hum or sing in a soft, low voice, especially in a sentimental manner. She was crooning to the child.
dragonfly	Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
flap	An act of flapping something typically a wing or arm up and down or from side to side. He wrote on the flap of the envelope.
flea	Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
fledged	(of a young bird) having wing feathers that are large enough for flight; able to fly. A recently fledged bird.
grasshopper	A cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao.
housefly	Common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases.
hum	A humming noise. The refrigerator is humming.
hustle	Obtain illicitly or by forceful action. The hustle and bustle of the big cities.
levitate	Be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity. The guru claimed that he could levitate.
mosquito	Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals.
moth	A clothes moth. I store my sweaters in plastic bags to protect them from moths.
pilot	Be the pilot of an aircraft or ship. Many expected him to get the job as Desert Orchid s pilot.
pterodactyl	Extinct flying reptile.
pterosaur	A fossil flying reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, with membranous wings supported by a greatly lengthened fourth finger.
twitter	(of a bird) give a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds. What a great crowd Perry twittered.
volant	Relating to or characterized by flight. Her sails caught a volant wind.
warble	A lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly. He warbled in an implausible soprano.
wasp	A solitary winged insect with a narrow waist mostly distantly related to the social wasps and including many parasitic kinds.
wing	The wing of a fowl. Some sportsmen make no scruple about firing into the thick of a wing of plover.
winged	Having one or more lateral parts, appendages, or projections. On winged feet.