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单词 hedge-hop
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hedge-hop
hedge-hop v. colloquial to fly in an aircraft at low levels so as to suggest hopping over hedges.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > fly (in) an aircraft [verb (intransitive)] > at very low level
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1926 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 18/2 Back he'd go ‘upstairs’ under a 200-foot ceiling, and hedge-hop along 20 miles or so, to the next emergency field.
1928 Daily Express 21 May 10/3 They can ‘hedge-hop’ with skill or fly to the greater heights with as much impunity as a man pilot.
1940 ‘Gun Buster’ Return via Dunkirk ii. xi. 171 A German plane hedge-hopped right over us.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File vii. 49 The machine [sc. a helicopter]..hedge-hopped in 100 m.p.h. gallops towards the sea.
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