planetbound

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adjective

Unable to leave the planet one is on.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveplanetbound (not comparable)
  1. not comparableUnable to leave the planet one is on.
    1 more example

    I'll bet a hat that Isaac Asimov could knock us all for a row of uranium cans if he wrote about something a leetle more familiar to us poor planet-bound humans. This massive sweep of millions of light years and thousands of centuries away was hot stuff fifteen years ago. Isaac, please come home, all is forgiven.

    1953 July 28, George O. Smith, Space Science Fiction, page 94
  2. not comparableHeading towards a planet.

    Our orbital scans are screaming red. Multiple drop ships are planetbound.

    2004, MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf

Origin

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Chicago

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