Usually means: From nowhere; completely unanticipated origin.
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  1. thin air: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. thin air: Vocabulary.com
  3. thin-air: Wordnik
  4. thin air: Wiktionary
  5. thin air: Dictionary.com
  6. Thin Air (Morgan novel), Thin Air (Parker novel), Thin Air (album), Thin Air (disambiguation), Thin Air: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. thin air: Rhymezone
  8. thin air: FreeDictionary.org
  9. thin air: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. thin air: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Thin Air: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (thin air)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic, figuratively, usually humorous) An unknown location.

Similar:
cloud, night air, dead air, somewhere, hinterland, void, unknown, uncharted territory, no man's land, ether, more...

Phrases:
out of thin air, Into Thin Air, vanish into thin air, disappear into thin air, appeared out of thin air, more...

Adjectives:
scarce, deliberate, sudden, suddain, gentle, late, overdue, head-on, secondhand, slow, footsure

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Similar:
cloud, night air, dead air, somewhere, hinterland, void, unknown, uncharted territory, no man's land, ether, more...

Phrases:
out of thin air, Into Thin Air, vanish into thin air, disappear into thin air, appeared out of thin air, appear out of thin air, make something appear out of thin air, appear from thin air, more...

Adjectives:
scarce, deliberate, sudden, suddain, gentle, late, overdue, head-on, secondhand, slow, footsure



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