mig

¹

Or migg

[mig]

noun

Chiefly Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S.

1. a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.

2. (used with a singular verb),  migs, the game of marbles.

MiG

²

Or Mig,

[mig]

noun

1. any of several Russian-built fighter aircraft, as the MiG-15, a jet used in the Korean War.

MiG

/ mɪɡ /

noun

1. any of various types of Russian and former Soviet fighter aircraft

Word History and Origins

Origin of mig¹

Perhaps variant of mib with g from game ¹

Origin of mig²

Named after Artem Mi(koyan) and Mikhail G(urevich), Russian aircraft designers

Word History and Origins

Origin of mig¹

from Mi ( koyan ) and G ( urevich ), names of designers

Example Sentences

Twenty Russian drones crossed into Poland in September while Russian MiG-31 jets entered Estonian airspace later in the month.

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The Biden Administration early in the war appeared panicked about Poland donating even some old MiG jets to Ukraine and then waited more than a year to train Ukrainian pilots on the F-16.

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Twenty Russian drones crossed into Poland and Russian MiG-31 jets entered Estonian airspace in separate recent incidents.

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The first time he throttled the MiG‑21 to full power, soaring 20km above the Earth at twice the speed of sound, the young fighter pilot felt utterly weightless, as if the sky itself had let him go.

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"I loved flying the MiG-21 the way a bird loves the sky. In combat it protected me - when the hawk comes for the bird, the clever bird gets away. That's what the MiG-21 was for me," he told me.

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