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feet dry

feet dry phrase: flying over land.

Phrase

feet dry

  1. Flying over land.
    • The aircraft headed “feet-dry” by the pilot's judicious use of rudders and afterburners.1979, Approach, volume 24, number 11
    • Feet wet: Fighter direction brevity code used to report that a plane had left land ("feet dry") and was now over water.1994, Paul T. Gillcrist, Tomcat!: The Grumman F-14 Story, page 196
    Antonyms:
    feet wet

Antonyms of feet dry

Questions about feet dry

What does feet dry mean?
Feet dry means flying over land.
What part of speech is feet dry?
Feet dry is a phrase.

Words near feet dry in the dictionary

  1. Feesers
  2. feeses
  3. feesh
  4. feesing
  5. feet
  6. feet dry
  7. feet first
  8. feet of clay
  9. feet on the ground
  10. feet per second
  11. feet wet

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