footloose
- s free to go or do as one pleases
Americans have always been a footloose people always moving on
a footloose young man eager to see the big city
flush
- n the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- n a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- n sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- n a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- n the swift release of a store of affective force
- n a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
he heard the flush of a toilet - n sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- v turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- v flow freely
The garbage flushed down the river - v glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
the sky flushed with rosy splendor - v make level or straight
- v rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
flush the wound with antibiotics - v irrigate with water from a sluice
- v cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
flush the meadows - s of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
a door flush with the wall
the bottom of the window is flush with the floor - s having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
a speculator flush with cash - r squarely or solidly
hit him flush in the face - r in the same plane
set it flush with the top of the table