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Flyer’s ailment
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jet lag
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Jet Lag is the fifth album of the Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi , released in 1977 by Asylum Records in the US and Manticore Records in Europe. This album incorporates the use of fretless bass in the sound and has a jazzier feel ...
Wiktionary
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n. A physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight; often the result of disruption to the circadian rhythms of the body.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also jetlag , 1966, from jet (n.2) + lag (n.). Also known in early days as time zone syndrome .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body's normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel
Usage examples of jet lag.
Hypersonic aircraft could cross half the globe in two hours, but the human passengers they carried suffered from jet lag all the same.
Electric motors don't make much noise, he told himself, trying to fight off the jet lag.
The air is thick with the smells of tobacco, brewer's yeast, and melatonin spray: Half the dotters are nursing monster jet lag hangovers, and the other half are babbling a Eurotrash creole at each other while they work on the hangover.