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# footloose

«footloose» in Mova's school dictionary: **free to go where you like and do what you want, with no…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (often «footloose and fancy-free»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Footloose means free to go where you like and do what you want, with no responsibilities to tie you down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footloose/#m1)

2) (informal) Not settled in one place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footloose/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories and everyday talk, often in the phrase «footloose and fancy-free», about young people travelling or not having a family or job holding them. It tells the reader someone is free and carefree.

### examples

- After finishing school, he was footloose and fancy-free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footloose/#x1)
- The footloose traveller hopped from town to town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footloose/#x2)
- She enjoyed her footloose summer before starting work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footloose/#x3)
- Uncle Joe has always been footloose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footloose/#x4)
- They spent a footloose week exploring the coast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footloose/#x5)
- Without homework, I felt footloose for a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footloose/#x6)

### note

Informal and a bit old-fashioned. Usually describes people, not things. Not about losing your foot!

### In the corpora

- ["Footloose and fancy-free" means single and free of ties.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «footloose» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footloose/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.