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desk pilots

desk pilots is the plural of desk pilot.

Meaning of desk pilot

Noun

desk pilot (plural desk pilots)

  1. (US) A serviceman relegated to menial deskwork, often due to poor physical and mental abilities.
    • Ever since Sgt. Armstrong got too fat to pass his PT tests, he got promoted to desk pilot.

Questions about desk pilots

What is desk pilots the plural of?
Desk pilots is the plural of desk pilot.

Words near desk pilots in the dictionary

  1. desk organizer
  2. desk organizers
  3. desk pad
  4. desk pads
  5. desk pilot
  6. desk pilots
  7. desk potato
  8. desk potatoes
  9. desk rage
  10. desk rejection
  11. desk rejections

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Adapted from Wiktionary: desk pilots (page history and authors); desk pilot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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