Crossword clues for whirlybird
Wiktionary
n. (context slang English) A helicopter.
WordNet
n. an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades [syn: helicopter, chopper, eggbeater]
Wikipedia
Whirlybird may refer to:
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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 equipment
- "Whirlybird", a tune written by Neal Hefti featured on the Count Basie CD The Atomic Mr. Basie
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.