SINCE 1828
auger in
intransitive verb
augered in;
augering in;
augers in
Definition of auger 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
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