(slang) To parachute (use a parachute).
(slang) To parachute (use a parachute).
With the engine on fire he had to punch out and hit the silk.
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(aviation, military slang) A parachute.
(slang) To have sex.
(slang) To drop suddenly to the ground.
(slang, idiomatic) To have sex.
Silk elevator is a vivid piece of aviation and military slang for a parachute. The name is perfectly descriptive: when deployed, a parachute billows open like a great silk canopy and gently carries the jumper toward the ground — the silk doing the work of an elevator, controlling descent rather than ascent. The term has a romantic, old-school quality and is most associated with the era when parachutes really were made of silk rather than nylon.