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fighter pilot

fighter pilot noun: a pilot trained in using and assigned to pilot a fighter plane.

Noun

fighter pilot (plural fighter pilots)

  1. A pilot trained in using and assigned to pilot a fighter plane.
    • "They all want to be fighter pilots when they grow up nowadays"1944 September and October, Railway Magazine, page 274, caption to a cartoon from the Sunday Dispatch, showing two schoolboys with their noses in the air next to a steam locomotive
  2. (CB slang) An erratic driver who changes lanes often.

Forms of fighter pilot

pluralfighter pilots

Questions about fighter pilot

What does fighter pilot mean?
Fighter pilot means a pilot trained in using and assigned to pilot a fighter plane.
What part of speech is fighter pilot?
Fighter pilot is a noun.
What is the plural of fighter pilot?
The plural of fighter pilot is fighter pilots.

Words near fighter pilot in the dictionary

  1. fighter aircraft
  2. fighter bomber
  3. fighter bombers
  4. fighter jet
  5. fighter jets
  6. fighter pilot
  7. fighter pilots
  8. fighter plane
  9. fighter planes
  10. fighter-bomber
  11. fighter-bombers

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