Mitsubishi

Noun

Mitsubishi (plural Mitsubishis)

1. A car manufactured by the Mitsubishi company (originally of Japan, but now with branches abroad).
   • “I still marvel today at how those Toyotas and Nissans and Mitsubishis were able to cross the terrain that they did.” Away from the few paved roads in Afghanistan, vehicular travel is tortuous and perilous. The roads often appear to be no road at all.2007, Nick Mills, Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle..., →ISBN, page 69
   • Of course, it wasn't really a movie theater; […]. He vaguely recalled, with less acuity than a dream, watching an endless video of Saudi Arabian street racing on the big pull-down screen last night. […] He couldn't focus on anything except one hundred white Mitsubishis in a field. “You didn't throw...2013, Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves, →ISBN
2. A plane manufactured by this company, especially during the Second World War.
   • Lanphier gazed upward. A few thousand feet above them and about five miles off were faint outlines against a sky of blue. The faint outlines were interpreted to be six Zeros and two other Mitsubishis.2003, A. Robert Hill, Stars of the Southern Cross, →ISBN, page 123
   • If a plane was heard overhead, every man would kneel. An entire unit would vanish, as if it had never been. An enemy oculd be a meter from such a man and still not see him. So what chance did the Mitsubishis stand?2013, Stuart Slade, The High Frontier, →ISBN, page 77
3. A (single dose of a) particular kind of ecstasy (drug).
   • “I don't know what kind of roll you guys are looking for, but the Mitsubishis are what's hot right now. Not too speedy, not too mellow, a nice high.2006, Lynn Marie Smith, Rolling Away: My Agony with Ecstasy, →ISBN, page 26
   • So how has Rule managed to go from gangsta rap's gun talk and bloody sagas of paranoia and revenge to loved-up ditties about nights rolling on Mitsubishis? Let's be honest, though. The E-influenced lyrics that have emerged […]2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock, →ISBN, page 330