paper airplane
(US, aeronautics) An aircraft under development .
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same two who argue about what whale they would be if they were whales, invented a new and more annoying type of paper airplane, and got really into magic tricks for a week. I don't worry about those ones.
So ever since then, I'm in the paper airplane business. ...Every day, I'm makin' planes. For that someday I see my son again...
Just turning the player into a piece of paper, huh? What's next? Folding them up into a paper airplane, or rolling them into a tube?
I jumped on a small paper airplane, looking for the dream I've been chasing after all this time Soaring in the sky like a bird with the wings of the wind, yeah!
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(US, aeronautics) An aircraft under development .
“I jumped on a small paper airplane, looking for the dream I've been chasing after all this time Soaring in the sky like a bird with the wings of the wind, yeah!”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US) A toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper.
“same two who argue about what whale they would be if they were whales, invented a new and more annoying type of paper airplane, and got really into magic tricks for a week. I don't worry about those ones.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“So ever since then, I'm in the paper airplane business. ...Every day, I'm makin' planes. For that someday I see my son again...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Just turning the player into a piece of paper, huh? What's next? Folding them up into a paper airplane, or rolling them into a tube?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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