Usually means: Move swiftly and lightly; dart.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word flit:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. flit: Merriam-Webster
  2. flit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flit, flit: Wordnik
  7. flit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flit: Wiktionary
  9. flit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flit, flit: Dictionary.com
  13. flit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FLIT, FliT (band), Flit (computer networking), Flit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flit: Rhymezone
  19. flit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. flit: FreeDictionary.org
  22. flit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. flit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. flit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flit: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flit: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FLIT: Acronym Finder
  2. flit: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. flit, flit, flit, flit, flit, flit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. flit: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Flit: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A fluttering or darting movement.
noun:  (physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
noun:  (dated, slang) A homosexual.
verb:  To move about rapidly and nimbly.
verb:  To move quickly from one location to another.
verb:  (physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
verb:  (UK, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
verb:  To move a tethered animal to a new grazing location.
verb:  To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
adjective:  (poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.
noun:  (networking) A flow control unit or flow control digit.

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