whirlybirds

plural of whirlybird
as in helicopters
a vehicle for traveling through the air that obtains its lift from rotors which spin horizontally from the sky a police whirlybird was able to track the fleeing carjacker

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Noun
  • To this end, they could be used effectively by Ukraine against things like Orlan-10 reconnaissance drones, Lancet loitering munitions, or Ka-52 and Mi-24 attack helicopters.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
  • More than 226,000 flight hours of air ambulance services took place in 2023 among 1,315 helicopters helping nearly 386,400 patients, according to the 2024 study.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Levine Cava bristled, saying the only money left to fund the choppers would be the county’s emergency fund — dollars reserved for hurricanes or other calamities.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Whirlybirds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whirlybirds. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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