flightmare

plural flightmares · alternative flight-mare

1. aeronauticsAn unpleasant flight or experience during air travel.

   She glanced, for the first time since this flightmare started, to the man sitting in the aisle seat beside her.

   2011, Joe Shrader, Eden Falls, page 118

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   I was so grateful to see my children that day, and even Jake was a sight for sore eyes after the “flightmare” from hell.

   2015, Mary Helen Hensley, Promised by Heaven

   The flightmare continues as I elbow my way through chuckleheads in pleated khakis or gamey business suits with phones clipped to their belts, parents who are wrangling several unruly kids hopped up on M&Ms, and reunited couples engaged in serious tonsil hockey.

   2015, Jennifer Worick, Things I Want to Punch in the Face, page 15

2. roleplaying gamesfantasyA type of dragon with poisonous breath that feeds on luminous algae.

   Flames like flightmare algae hidden within the enclaves of a kaleidoscope illusion, a gateway into the god's secret treasure chest.

   2020, Gaston D. Cox, Aurea Mediocritas: A Book of Short Stories