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here comes the plane

here comes the plane interjection: said to encourage young children to open their mouths during spoon-feeding.

Interjection

here comes the plane

  1. Said to encourage young children to open their mouths during spoon-feeding.

Noun

here comes the plane (uncountable)

  1. A game played while spoon-feeding children to encourage them to eat.
    • She tried to play a game of "Here comes the airplane!" It worked once or twice , but that was all .1994, Phyllis Lieber, Gloria S. Murphy, Annette Merkur Schwartz, Grown-up Children, Grown-up Parents: Opening the Door to Healthy Relationships Between Parents and Adult Children, Carol Publishing...
    • I also realized he could get me to do lots of things, most of them humiliating, to get him to eat: beg, plead, threaten, bribe, play "here comes the airplane."2012 August 1, Ellyn Satter, Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense, Bull Publishing Company, →ISBN

Forms of here comes the plane

alternative formhere comes the aeroplane
alternative formhere comes the airplane

Questions about here comes the plane

What does here comes the plane mean?
Here comes the plane means said to encourage young children to open their mouths during spoon-feeding.
What part of speech is here comes the plane?
Here comes the plane can be an interjection or a noun.

Words near here comes the plane in the dictionary

  1. here and yonder
  2. here be dragons
  3. here below
  4. here comes the aeroplane
  5. here comes the airplane
  6. here comes the plane
  7. here document
  8. here documents
  9. here for a good time, not a long time
  10. here for it
  11. here goes

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