flattop

Examples

• All

• During the naval exercise, several flattop vessels demonstrated their capabilities by launching fighter jets.

• - All we gotta do is find that 4th Jap flattop.

  Midway (1976)

• And we got ourselves a flattop.

  Destination Tokyo (1943)

• Adams located the 4th enemy flattop.

  Midway (1976)

• Here comes a flattop with a destroyer screen.

  Destination Tokyo (1943)

• Two flattops building on the ship's ways.

  Destination Tokyo (1943)

• -With all due respect, admiral... ...you can drive this flattop any way you please... ...but once those aircraft leave the deck, they're my responsibility.

  Flight of Fury (2007)

• The woman holds onto his belt, and one of the flattops holds onto her.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Scratch one flattop!

  Midway (1976)

• The most excitement I ever had, was the time I landed a crippled F-14 with a stubborn nose gear on the deck of a rolling flattop in zero visibility.

  Innerspace (1987)

Synonyms

C

carrier

vsflattop

171 6.3

A large warship with a flat deck for aircraft to take off and land

refers to the standard term rather than the informal sailors nickname

A

aircraft carrier

vsflattop

59 3.8

A very large war ship with a long flat deck where military planes take off and land

is the informal naval name for that same ship

A

attack aircraft carrier

vsflattop

• Specialized

8.1

A big military ship with a long flat deck that carries and launches fighter planes

is broader and neutral without the offensive focus

How Big

supercarrier

• Specialized

1 7.7

flattop

• Archaic

1 7.2

destroyer escort

• Archaic

1 8.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology