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An aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
Answer for the clue "An aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades ", 10 letters:
whirlybird
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Whirlybird may refer to: Helicopter (slang) Whirlybirds , a television program that aired in the United States from 1957 to 1960 Samara (fruit) (slang), the fruit of a maple tree Paper fortune teller , a form of origami Power trowel (slang), light construction ...
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n. an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades [syn: helicopter , chopper , eggbeater ]
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context slang English) A helicopter.
Usage examples of whirlybird.
Liverpool seemed staid and old-fashioned compared to the modern, pacy, heroic images of the American television series that dominated the tiny black and white British screen: Sunset Strip, Highway Patrol, Sea Hunt, Dragnet, Whirlybirds.
So he was whirlybirding down Biscayne Boulevard toward the grandstand and the network TV lights when a Miami policeman stopped him.
He watched the whirlybirds zooming over him where he had quickly concealed himself and as they began to circle around the shimmering energy curtain.
I crashed so many whirlybirds a colonel one day said, 'That God (bleeped) Rimbombo shows talent but he's in the wrong branch of the service.