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flying helmets

flying helmets is the plural of flying helmet.

Meaning of flying helmet

Noun

flying helmet (plural flying helmets)

  1. A leather head covering with earflaps used by early aviators.
    • This is another area in which it's hard to tell the dude from the twitcher, as ratting caps and deerstalkers, flying helmets and even toppers are considered acceptably eccentric.1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61

Questions about flying helmets

What is flying helmets the plural of?
Flying helmets is the plural of flying helmet.

Words near flying helmets in the dictionary

  1. flying gurnards
  2. flying handkerchief
  3. flying handkerchiefs
  4. flying hatchetfish
  5. flying helmet
  6. flying helmets
  7. flying high
  8. flying ice cube effect
  9. flying in
  10. flying in the face of
  11. flying into

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