flyover

Everyday

1. (UK, Australia) A flyover is a bridge that carries one road over another road or railway. tree →
2. (US) A flyover, also flypast (UK), is a planned flight of aircraft low over a place for a show or ceremony. tree →
3. (US informal) «Flyover country» is a joking name for the middle states of the USA that people fly over between the coasts. tree →

In the lessons

Everyday travel and geography (roads and junctions); ceremonies (the Red Arrows flypast). Phrases: go over the flyover, under the flyover, military flyover.

Examples

• The bus went over the flyover into town. tree →
• The skateboarders met under the flyover. tree →
• (US) Jets did a flyover at the football game. tree →
• The new flyover stops traffic jams at the junction. tree →
• In the UK, the Red Arrows do a flypast, which Americans call a flyover. tree →
• We could see the river from the top of the flyover. tree →

Note

US English often says overpass for the road bridge. Countable. One word.