fly-by

1. 1.

   a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground

   Synonymsflyoverflypast

   Broaderflight

   military · aircraft

Questions about fly-by

What does fly-by mean?

fly-by means "a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground".

How many syllables are in fly-by?

fly-by has 2 syllables: fly--by. The stress falls on "fly-".

What is another word for fly-by?

Close synonyms include flyover, flypast. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fly-by a common word?

fly-by is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.