gull wing
noun [as modifier]
(Of a door on a car or aircraft) opening upwards: gull-wing doors...
- Press the flush button by the door to open the gull-wing doors, which have hydraulics powerful enough to lift the doors automatically.
- But the gull-wing car nearly got Nik and Eva into serious trouble just outside Turin, where a police officer thought they had a bomb in the back.
- The YCC has a personalised driving position, autopark for easy parking and gull-wing doors for easier access and improved visibility.
Derivatives
gull-winged
- Visit the DeLorean Owners Association for more information on his best-known legacy, the gull-winged stainless steel sports car that lumbered along and had far more success in the movies than on the road.
- OK I'll admit I'm a fan of the big gull-winged monster.
- But its daring gull-winged construction - a reinforced concrete sculpture that tested the limits of its material and of what modernism could be - was the source of its distinction as well as downfall.