frequent flier
n.— «Roselle Police Chief Richard Eddington said he often sees familiar names—the names of frequent fliers—when he looks over a list of phone calls made to the police department over the weekend. A frequent flier is a troubled teen who repeatedly runs away from home.» —“DuPage towns seeing increase in runaways” by Mike Burke Chicago Daily Herald (Illinois) May 24, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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