in orbit


Also found in: Wikipedia.

in orbit

1. Traveling around a celestial body. The planets are moving in orbit around the sun, right?
2. Extremely happy. Penny's been in orbit since getting engaged last week. I don't think she's stopped smiling once!
3. Intoxicated or high. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really in orbit!
See also: orbit
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

*in orbit

 
1. Lit. [of something] circling a heavenly body. (*Typically: be ~; put something [into] ~.) The moon is in orbit around the earth. They put the satellite into orbit.
2. Fig. ecstatic; thrilled; emotionally high. (*Typically: be ~.) Jane is in orbit about her new job. John went into orbit when he got the check in the mail.
3. Inf. intoxicated. After having six drinks all to herself, Julie was in orbit.
See also: orbit
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

in orbit

Thrilled, delighted, as in Dean's in orbit over his son's success. This expression alludes to the successful launching into orbit of a satellite or other spacecraft. [Slang; late 1900s]
See also: orbit
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

in orbit

1. mod. ecstatic; euphoric. She was just in orbit when she got the letter.
2. mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. Gary is in orbit and can’t see a hole in a ladder.
See also: orbit
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
See also:
References in periodicals archive ?
Prior to that, (http://www.space.com/23646-ors3-rocket-launch-satellites-description.html) in 2013 , NASA used a Minotaur 1 rocket to place 29 satellites in orbit.
Indian Space Agency To Launch 104 Satellites On A Single Rocket
To reduce the influences of human factors in orbit optimizations [4-9], CPC-based OM is presented, and the accelerating convergence approach will be introduced in Section 4 to develop DCPC-based OM.
A Novel Double Cluster and Principal Component Analysis-Based Optimization Method for the Orbit Design of Earth Observation Satellites
The results show that the proposed robust adaptive filtering algorithm can better cope with the interference of noise and uncertainty of system model parameter which provide a higher accuracy of attitude determination results under the premise of errors existing in orbit parameters determination.
Robust adaptive filter for small satellite attitude estimation based on magnetometer and gyro
Two further homes in Orbit Street and Bedford Street were broken into on Sunday.
Police appeal after burglaries
Kaltenegger also said the new results can't rule out the possibility that these possible planets are in orbit, and that they may only have the mass of Saturn, about a third of Jupiter's.
Astronomers discover possibility of planets without orbits
But with the United States' era of manned space flight coming to an end, the Space Age belongs to the past - a transition underscored by NASA's announcement that America's only vehicles for putting human beings in orbit, the space shuttle fleet, will be headed for public display in four museums.
Nostalgia for the Space Age
In other eases, the dwarf remains in orbit around the two stars.
What's a planet? New riddles beyond the solar system
The baroque quality of many proposed schemes--like building massive solar collectors in orbit that would beam the energy generated back to Earth in the form of microwaves--has only meant setbacks.
Beyond Columbia: is there a future for humanity in space?
American and Soviet space-crafts dock in orbit for the first time.
Key events in space exploration. (Skills Master 2)
How high up must these objects be and how fast must they travel to stay in orbit? When was the first orbiting spacecraft launched?
Floating In Space
Since the launch of the Soviet "Sputnik I" in 1957, over 4,500 spacecraft have been hurled from the Earth's surface, nearly half of which remain in orbit. According to the new book Orbital Debris: A Technical Assessment, only about 10 percent of these craft are still functional; the rest simply constitute space junk, very expensive garbage.
Garbage in orbit: debris from 40 years of space exploration presents a thorny disposal problem
As is, shuttle prices are so high that NASA is having trouble getting planetary probes and communication satellites in orbit, objects with a tiny fraction of the weight necessary for serious manned space flight.
Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges and the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space
Coverage of the system lags behind that of GPS, and the full system is not expected to be in orbit until 1995.
Background to and applications of Navstar/GPS
The Wilkinson Microwave Auisotropy Probe (WMAP), which measures the cosmic background radiation, is in orbit there.
Navigating celestial currents: math leads spacecraft on joy rides through the solar system
Idioms browser ?
Full browser ?