as in helicopter
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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Recent Examples of eggbeater One design is a turbine that eschews the pinwheel-like blades of a traditional windmill; instead it is shaped like an upended eggbeater, with both ends of each curved blade attached to a central pole. You Xiaoying, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2025 Renata Schmitt, clad in leggings and sneakers, long hair pulled back from her face, squinted at the two ropes that arced toward and away from each other in an eggbeater pattern, blurring through the air of a gym in Southeast D.C. Schmitt, 52, of Arlington, waited, watched, then jumped in. Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 26 July 2023 Mechanical Eggbeater, Willis Johnson On February 5, 1884, Willis Johnson patented an improved mechanical eggbeater (U.S. Patent 292,821) with the intention of having the machine mix more than just eggs. Dorkys Ramos, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2023 Duane kills with kitchen tongs, an eggbeater, an iron. oregonlive, 18 May 2021 There is some speculation that the currents flowing around wind farms could turn into a giant eggbeater, mixing warm surface water into the cold pool, but that hasn’t been shown in any direct field observations, Miles says. Eric Niiler, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021 Paul drew Teeny’s onto kitchen objects: an eggbeater bike, little kids on dixie cups, a dog leash and collar as a swing. Elizabeth Isadora Gold, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2020
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Noun
  • Temporary flight restrictions are active in the area, barring drones and other aircraft from interfering with the helicopters.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Some search and rescue efforts involved helicopters rescuing people off the roofs of houses as they were surrounded by several feet of flooding, images that are reminiscent to rescues conducted during Hurricane Katrina, said US Coast Guard Capt.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Mealhelper 12-in-1 Vegetable Chopper, $13 with Prime This manual vegetable chopper is another kitchen gadget with a Kardashian stamp of approval.
    Kyra Surgent, PEOPLE, 8 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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“Eggbeater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eggbeater. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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