Definition of auger in
augered in;
augering in;
augers in
aviation, informal
:to crash catastrophically
- Kinch went into a tumble during his record flight and came out of it at low altitude, as Yeager had done. That was just twenty days before Mel Apt augered in.
- —Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff, 1979
- The plane flipped upside down and augered in, killing him.
- —Dan McKinnon, Rescue Pilot, 2002
