fighter pilot

English

Noun

fighter pilot (plural fighter pilots)

1. A pilot trained in using and assigned to pilot a fighter plane.
   • 1944 September and October, Railway Magazine, page 274, caption to a cartoon from the Sunday Dispatch, showing two schoolboys with their noses in the air next to a steam locomotive:

     "They all want to be fighter pilots when they grow up nowadays"

2. (CB slang) An erratic driver who changes lanes often.

Translations

a pilot trained in using and assigned to pilot a fighter plane

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛官／飞官 (fēiguān)

• Czech: stíhač (cs) m
• Danish: jagerpilot c, kamppilot c
• French: pilote de chasse (fr) m
• German: Jagdflieger (de) m; Kampfpilot (de) m, Kampfflieger (de) m
• Italian: pilota di caccia m or f
• Romanian: pilot de vânătoare m
• Russian: истреби́тель (ru) m (istrebítelʹ)
• Swedish: stridspilot (sv) c
• Ukrainian: вини́щувач m (vynýščuvač)

See also

• fighter pilot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia