flypast
noun
flypast is a noun meaning “A low-level flight of a ceremonial nature; a flyover (US)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-Y-P-A-S-T, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flypast is flypasts.
What does flypast mean?
noun
- 1
IrelandUKA low-level flight of a ceremonial nature; a flyover (US)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flypast
- flypasts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flypast?
Flypast appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flypast come from?
From fly + past.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).