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yellow shirt

yellow shirt noun: a sailor on an aircraft carrier responsible for directing aircraft. Also the alternative form of Yellow Shirt.

Noun (1)

yellow shirt (plural yellow shirts)

  1. A sailor on an aircraft carrier responsible for directing aircraft.
    • I was extremely happy and excited when promoted to yellow shirt, but I was scared because I didn't want to make any mistakes or get chewed out for doing something wrong.1988, United States Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval Historical Center, Naval aviation news, page 21
    • Then, out of the comer of my eye, I saw a blue shirt get blown down the flight deck. I saw a yellow shirt run up to him and drag him to safety.1992, Approach - Volume 37, Issue 7
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, shirt.

Noun (2) capitalized: Yellow Shirt

Yellow Shirt (plural Yellow Shirts)

  1. A member of the Popular Alliance for Democracy (PAD), the organization responsible for the coup d'etat in Thailand in 2006.
    • This need became clear with the emergence and conflicts between the Yellow Shirt movement (2005-13) and the Red Shirt movement (2007-present).2014, N. Kim, Multicultural Challenges and Sustainable Democracy in Europe and East Asia, →ISBN
    • The mass demonstrations led by the Yellow Shirts since 2005 sought to expel Thaksin, whom they regard as highly corrupt, manipulative, and authoritarian – a major threat to the country's democracy, monarchy, and national security as a whole.2014, Pranee Liamputtong, Contemporary Socio-Cultural and Political Perspectives in Thailand, →ISBN
  2. (alternative) Alternative form of yellow shirt.
    • Once out of the wire, the pilot would follow the hand signals of a Yellow Shirt, a sailor wearing a yellow shirt, to the parking place picked out with great care by another intense group of people playing musical chairs with airplanes from a room in the island on the same level as the flight deck.1988, George C. Wilson, Supercarrier, →ISBN
    • When he got to the ship, I stopped him and started my lecture. "Now, J. J., you know bringing liquor onboard is against regulations. I'm supposed to report you and have you thrown into the brig. But you and I have been through a lot together on the flight deck. So, this is what I'm going to do: I'm...2009, Andrew Zenas Adkins, The Lawyer's Guide to Practice Management Systems Software, →ISBN

Also used as

yellow shirt is also the alternative form of Yellow Shirt.

Forms of yellow shirt

pluralyellow shirts
alternative formYellow Shirt
pluralYellow Shirts
alternative formyellow shirt

Questions about yellow shirt

What does yellow shirt mean?
Yellow shirt means a sailor on an aircraft carrier responsible for directing aircraft.
What part of speech is yellow shirt?
Yellow shirt is a noun.
What is the plural of yellow shirt?
The plural of yellow shirt is yellow shirts.

Words near yellow shirt in the dictionary

  1. Yellow Sea
  2. yellow seahorse
  3. yellow seahorses
  4. yellow sheet
  5. yellow sheets
  6. yellow shirt
  7. yellow shirts
  8. yellow shoot disease
  9. yellow sigatoka
  10. yellow slug
  11. yellow slugs

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