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helijet

noun

Etymology

From heli- + jet.

  1. derived from Γαγάτης
  2. derived from gagātēs
  3. derived from jayet
  4. inherited from get
  5. prefixed as helijet — “heli + jet”

Definitions

  1. A flying vehicle resembling a helicopter and/or a jet.

    • Tomiko waited less than an hour, then flew with Harfex to the area where Osden had reported himself the night before. But as the helijet hovered over the sea of purplish leaves, illimitable, impenetrable, she felt a panic despair.
    • Suddenly there was a glare of fight and the sound of an explosion from one of the other helijets, the one carrying Blare Oblomot. Heshke gasped with shock, and saw the flaring skeleton of the jet plummeting earthward in the darkness.
    • The two men heard a sound from above, and looked up to see three police helijets hovering overhead.

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