dartlike
adjEtymology From dart + -like.
› Resembling a dart.
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Resembling the movement of a thrown dart: swift and abrupt.
- Near-synonym: darting
- dartlike movements
1 more example
- The alto saxophonist Greg Osby has a brittle and dartlike style, well suited to exploratory post-bop or slippery free-funk.2007 January 26, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times:
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Resembling a dart otherwise (for example, in shape and use).
- dartlike projectiles