eggbeaters

plural of eggbeater
as in helicopters
a vehicle for traveling through the air that obtains its lift from rotors which spin horizontally told stories of his days flying eggbeaters during the Vietnam War

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Noun
  • Presumably, if helicopters were as quiet as eVTOLs, would our cities currently have hundreds or thousands of helicopters flying around?
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In Chicago, federal agents rappelled from Black Hawk helicopters onto an apartment building.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After midnight on September 30th, helicopters hovered above a large Chicago apartment building, and heavily armored agents rappelled from the choppers onto the roof.
    Veralyn Williams, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
  • While Black Ops 6 toyed with a more grounded, back-to-the-basics approach of UAVs, airstrikes, and attack choppers as scorestreak rewards for tallying enough points or kills, the speculative fiction framework of BLOPS 7 means everything requires a heightened tone.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Eggbeaters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eggbeaters. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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