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adjective

foot-loose adj.

Having no commitments or restrictions. "foot-loose and fancy-free"

Synonyms: fancy-free, footloose.

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Etymology of 'Foot-loose'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foot-loose" Quotes from Famous Books

... crossed the railroad about a mile west of Little Missouri Station. The wagons secured the needed supplies, and pulled out down the river, leaving Sponsilier and myself foot-loose and free. ...

— The Outlet • Andy Adams

... horse and venomous as a snake. Some say he's swifter than the wind and slicker than a red fox. And many's the time by my own h'a'th-stone I've had to pooh-pooh these relations; yet there's no denying that for mighty nigh seven year that nigger's been trolloping round through the woods foot-loose and scotch-free, bidding defiance to the law of the State ...

— Mingo - And Other Sketches in Black and White • Joel Chandler Harris

... a mighty good boy. I don't know what your ma would do without you. I hed to leave school when I wa'n't as old as you, and git out and hustle so the younger children could git eddicated. By the time I wuz foot-loose from farm work, I wuz too old to git any larnin'. You'd orter manage someway, though, ...

— David Dunne - A Romance of the Middle West • Belle Kanaris Maniates