wings

[wingz]

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. Also called aviation badge. Military Informal.,  a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.

2. a gold-embroidered green badge in the shape of a spread pair of bird wings worn by junior and cadette Girl Scouts to indicate previous membership in a Brownie troop.

Example Sentences

Beyond cephalopods, xanthommatin is also found in insects within the arthropod group, contributing to the brilliant orange and yellow hues of monarch butterfly wings and the bright reds seen in dragonfly bodies and fly eyes.

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He’s there to have one of his own tattoos, the image of a harmonica with wings, cleaned up.

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The bear's design and technology waited in the wings while the cast and production was pulled together around it.

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In an internal memo, Buechel tied the layoffs to the company’s efforts to bring its grocery wings closer together.

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Crab fried rice arrived topped with generous lumps of crab meat, and the Vietnamese chicken wings were fried hard, impossibly crispy.

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