footloose

comparative more footloose · superlative most footloose

1. Tending to travel or do as one pleases; readily without many commitments or responsibility.

   He was footloose in his youth.

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   Because we often imagine that immigrants are constantly on the move, footloose, able to change course at any moment.

   2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 465

   […] They are footloose but also desperate, squeezed by rising inequality and a frayed safety net.

   2021 February 18, A. O. Scott, “‘Nomadland’ Review: The Unsettled Americans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

2. nauticalOf a sail: not properly secured at the bottom.