fighter pilot
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈfaɪtər ˈpaɪlət/
- Specialized
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piloto de caza
- But we turned out many well-trained fighter pilots who could shoot and go back up to shoot again.
- experienced fighter pilot
- novice fighter pilot
- highly trained fighter pilot
I was madly in love with this fighter pilot that was in the war.
- I was madly in love with this fighter pilot that was in the war.
- The the Pentagon has released a few videos and there's been anecdotal reports from fighter pilots.
- One of the guys who's a fighter pilot had a had an ejection ride and it gave him Parkinson's.
- There's a little bit of overlap in the reference to, you know, the Admiral Stockdale, the fighter pilot who got shot down, spent time in a Vietnamese prison camp.
- There's four times more female fighter pilots in the US Air Force by percentage than there are male kindergarten teachers.
- And today when a teenage girl says, I want to be a combat fighter pilot, people will say, people will literally say things like, well, what are your preferred pronouns?
- I had the Jet Navy fighter pilot named Ryan Graves on my podcast.
- He just couldn't help but exaggerate and fool these people into believing that he's a, you know, a fighter pilot.
- And he who the ones who don't, aren't willing to defend and risk themselves to support and defend their their fellow fighter pilots.
- One of them was the was the fighter pilot that wound up being a video game fantasy that they put out there as fact.
- So you basically made a game in which you are a fighter pilot on the side of not the Allies fighting in super weapons.
- I worry about what do you think about those fucking things that those fighter pilots are seeing off the off those ships off of San Diego?
Examples
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You won't find a finer fighter pilot anywhere.
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The four fighter pilots were released first.
Academic text (2006) -
George told me you were a fighter pilot.
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You are talking about the best fighter pilots on the planet, Captain.
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My job is to turn you into one of the best fighter pilots in the world.
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Well, he went to be a fighter pilot, but they washed him out.
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Between the ages of two and four, James would reveal extraordinary details about the life of a former fighter pilot.
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Many outstanding fighter pilot achievements may seem almost unbelievable.
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We are fighter pilots.
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My grandfather said being a fighter pilot is the best job on earth.
Synonyms
2
6.0
A person who flies military planes to fight enemy aircraft
1
8.5
A pilot who fights other planes at close range
A pilot who flies low and shoots at people or vehicles on the ground
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'pilot' (person who operates an aircraft) modified by 'fighter' (one who fights) yields a pilot who flies fighter aircraft or engages in aerial combat. This noun–noun compounding follows regular English patterns and has clear parallels in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Fighter pilot combines fighter and pilot. It creates the picture of a person who flies a fast military plane and 'fights' in the sky, so it means 'a military pilot who fights in the air'.