Military slang for a jet fighter or fast-attack aircraft — the kind of plane that screams overhead and disappears before you've even processed it.
Military slang for a jet fighter or fast-attack aircraft — the kind of plane that screams overhead and disappears before you've even processed it. Used mostly in ground troop and aviation communications to distinguish supersonic jets from helicopters or prop planes. It captures the jaw-dropping speed differential in one punchy phrase. Civilians sometimes borrow it to describe anything moving at an insane clip — a stock, a career, a date who's already texting about a second outing.
The FAC called in a fast mover for close air support, and within minutes the whole ridge line was quiet.
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(slang) The pilot of a jet fighter aircraft.
(military slang, US) A jet fighter.
Slang for the pilot of a jet fighter aircraft — someone who handles a fast, powerful military jet with the casual confidence of a rodeo cowboy working a horse. The term has swagger baked into it, implying not just technical skill but a certain reckless, adrenaline-chasing personality. By extension, it's also used loosely for astronauts, test pilots, and anyone whose job involves strapping into something that moves very, very fast and seeing what happens.
(slang) A speedboat.
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(military slang) jet fighter.
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