helijet

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noun

A flying vehicle resembling a helicopter and/or a jet.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounhelijet (plural helijets)

plural helijets

  1. literatureA flying vehicle resembling a helicopter and/or a jet.

    The two men heard a sound from above, and looked up to see three police helijets hovering overhead.

    2002, Moss Tosney, The Ten Percent Man, page 572
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    Tomiko waited less than an hour, then flew with Harfex to the area where Osden had reported himself the night before. But as the helijet hovered over the sea of purplish leaves, illimitable, impenetrable, she felt a panic despair.

    1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow

    Suddenly there was a glare of fight and the sound of an explosion from one of the other helijets, the one carrying Blare Oblomot. Heshke gasped with shock, and saw the flaring skeleton of the jet plummeting earthward in the darkness.

    2001, Barrington J. Bayley, Collision with Chronos, page 20

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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