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paper plane

paper plane is the clipping of paper airplane.

paper plane is the clipping of paper aeroplane.

Meaning of paper airplane

Noun

paper airplane (plural paper airplanes)

  1. (US) A toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper.
    Synonyms:
    paper plane, paper flier, paper flyer, paper dart, dart
  2. (US) An aircraft under development (so named because it remains only on paper to date; a tongue-in-cheek sense with acknowledgment of the original sense).
    Synonyms:
    paper plane

Forms of paper plane

pluralpaper planes

Questions about paper plane

What is paper plane the clipping of?
Paper plane is the clipping of paper airplane.

Words near paper plane in the dictionary

  1. paper orphan
  2. paper orphans
  3. paper over
  4. paper park
  5. paper parks
  6. paper plane
  7. paper planes
  8. paper plate
  9. paper plates
  10. paper plume
  11. paper profit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paper plane (page history and authors); paper airplane (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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