And he recently jetted to Austin for South by Southwest to attend the premiere of a new short film that he wrote and stars in.
A deep coughing sound troubled the stillness, way toward a wooded cape that jetted into the stream a mile distant.
They jetted into the bottles, and again nothing was left outside.
She appeared clad in a thin slip of transparent and jetted gauze.
He jetted off to the right, but the monster veered instantly.
Maria, with a jetted jacket, yellow petticoat and reboza, was waiting for her husband.
Margaret cast the gown on the bed, revealing all its beauty of jetted lace and soft yellow silk with a dextrous sweep of her arm.
There was a stiff, jetted ornament on her new bonnet, and it stood up like a crest.
Chuckling, Bud darted in pursuit, whacked the porpoise that had nudged him, and jetted off again.
Then opening the top of it slightly, it jetted forth a deliciously perfumed fine spray, which moistened my lips.
early 15c., "to prance, strut, swagger," from Middle French jeter "to throw, thrust," from Late Latin iectare, abstracted from deiectare, proiectare, etc., in place of Latin iactare "toss about," frequentative of iacere "to throw, cast," from PIE root *ye- "to do" (cf. Greek iemi, ienai "to send, throw;" Hittite ijami "I make"). Meaning "to sprout or spurt forth" is from 1690s. Related: Jetted; jetting.
"stream of water," 1690s, from French jet, from jeter (see jet (v.)). Sense of "spout or nozzle for emitting water, gas, fuel, etc." is from 1825. Hence jet propulsion (1867) and the noun meaning "airplane driven by jet propulsion" (1944, from jet engine, 1943). The first one to be in service was the German Messerschmitt Me 262. Jet stream is from 1947. Jet set first attested 1951, slightly before jet commuter plane flights began. Jet age is attested from 1952.
"deep black lignite," mid-14c., from Anglo-French geet, Old French jaiet "jet, lignite" (12c.), from Latin gagates, from Greek gagates lithos "stone of Gages," town and river in Lycia. As "a deep black color," also as an adjective, attested from mid-15c.
