What is "flattop"

Usage examples of "flattop".

The three flattop groups on hand were to space themselves along two hundred fifty miles of the eastern Philippine coast for air searches and strikes next morning, when the Jap battleships would be steaming within range.

One small ship with minuscule guns had driven the battlewagons into disarray, giving the baby flattops a few minutes of respite.

On the far side of the row of skulls, some fifty yards beyond, we saw the House of Skulls crouching like a sphinx in the desert: a fairly large one-story building, flattopped, with coarse yellow-brown stucco walls.

A pair of club chairs, a settee, and a couple of Chesterfields were positioned just so in front of a flattop, marble-inlay desk, the surface of which could easily have accommodated six or seven of the performers from Huber's Museum.

All eyes were on this man as with almost ritualistic earnestness, in the midst of much joking, laughing, clowning about of the players, he pitched underhand the dazzling-white softball to a figure crouched at bat-Sable Mills, herself-an energetic and feisty figure, yet not much of an athlete-Sable with her brassy hair newly cut in a virtual flattop, a wicked silver clamp on one ear, in black sleeveless sweater and matching jodhpurs that fitted her wiry body as if she'd been poured into them like melted wax.

As the ascent to Flattop grew steeper and hotter and dustier, she picked up the pace and soon walked alone.

Malloy was backstopped by a muscle cop who looked like a refugee from the wrong side of a Mississippi chain gang: big ears, blond flattop, pig eyes, and a too-small suitcoat framing the kind of body you expect to see on convicts who haul cotton bales all day.

Admiral Felix Stump, who commanded one of the baby flattop squadrons in that historic naval engagement, and Bill Lederer, his witty assistant.

As dawn broke, he sighted a speedy United States destroyer, a light cruiser, and a baby flattop rushing to the scene at full steam.

Those missing flattops weren't covering the oncoming San Bernardino force.

Or Halsey could stay off San Bernardino with the battleships, and Turn Mitscher's flattops loose to run north and get the carriers.

While wandering around up there we'll also cover the Flattop Mountain Trail from below Fifty Mountain Camp to the middle of the Waterton Valley and the West Flattop Mountain Trail from the continental divide to Dixon Glacier.

To protect the defenseless baby flattops, there were nine moderate-sized destroyers and twelve sharply undersized craft called destroyer escorts, whose name correctly defined their duties.

But the two damaged Japanese flattops were dropped from the operation.

Then he had ordered the remaining one hundred eight planes in the four flattops spotted on deck in readiness to attack any enemy warships that might show up.