go Winchester

verb

To run out of ammunition, requiring a return to base.

Meanings

verbgo Winchester (third-person singular simple present goes Winchester, present participle going Winchester, simple past went Winchester, past participle gone Winchester)

present singular third person goes Winchester · participle present going Winchester · past went Winchester · participle past gone Winchester

  1. aeronauticsTo run out of ammunition, requiring a return to base.

    He had come from another controller, so he only had two Mavericks and [his wingman] had four Mk-82s, so they went Winchester pretty quick.

    2007, Steve Call, Danger close: tactical air controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq, page 149
    2 more examples

    We go Winchester before we go target." Winchester was thirty-thirty, the UHF frequency we used in flight school when we were both flying solo

    1990, G. C. Hendricks, The second war, page 52

    Nobody had gone Winchester before - Charlotte and Tony had just made British Apache history. Billy sent our ammo requirements to Kev Blundell in Bastion

    2009, Ed Macy, Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Deadly Fighting Machine, page 321
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