landing strip

English

A landing strip (sense 1) at Palm Springs International Airport, California

Pronunciation

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Noun

landing strip (plural landing strips)

2. (aviation) A runway for aircraft, especially one which is auxiliary or temporary.
   • 2005 August 9, Rosalind Ryan, The Guardian:

     As Discovery headed towards the landing strip in the Mojave desert, radio contact between Mission Control and the shuttle was kept to a minimum.

4. (idiomatic) A cultivated pubic hair pattern in which much of the pubic hair is removed, leaving only a central vertical line or rectangle.
6. A rectangular piece of slightly thicker plastic on the top rise (front part) of a diaper, especially a disposable one, to which the tapes or tabs can be fastened; usually has print designs on it.

   Synonym: landing zone

Synonyms

• (runway for aircraft): airstrip
• See also Thesaurus:pubic hair

Translations

auxiliary or temporary runway for aircraft

• Arabic: مَهْبِط m (mahbiṭ)
• Azerbaijani: eniş zolağı
• Bulgarian: писта (bg) (pista)
• Czech: přistávací plocha f
• Dutch: landingsbaan (nl) m or f
• Finnish: lentopaikka (fi); korpikenttä (fi) (informal)
• French: piste d’atterrissage (fr) f
• German: Landepiste (de) f, Landebahn (de) f
• Greek: λωρίδα (el) f (lorída)
• Hungarian: leszállópálya (hu)
• Icelandic: flugbraut f, braut (is) f
• Italian: pista d'atterraggio f
• Japanese: 滑走路 (ja) (かっそうろ, kassōro)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landingsstripe m or f

  Nynorsk: landingsstripe f

• Portuguese: pista (pt) f
• Russian: поса́дочная полоса́ f (posádočnaja polosá)
• Serbo-Croatian: sletna staza, pista (sh)
• Slovene: pristajalna steza
• Spanish: pista de aterrizaje f
• Swedish: landningsbana (sv) c

pubic hair pattern

• Finnish: kiitorata (fi)
• French: ticket de métro (fr) m
• Portuguese: bigodinho de Hitler (pt) (Brazil, slang)