Usually means: Escape or leave a situation.
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  1. fly the coop: Merriam-Webster
  2. fly the coop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fly the coop: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fly the coop: Vocabulary.com
  5. fly the coop: Wiktionary
  6. fly the coop: Dictionary.com
  7. fly the coop: Rhymezone
  8. fly the coop: FreeDictionary.org
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  10. fly the coop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. fly the coop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fly the coop)

verb:  (idiomatic) To depart hastily or unannounced; to escape or flee.
verb:  (of a bird) To escape from a pen or similar enclosure.

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