Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for escort fighter. Search instead for booze fighter.

escort fighter

American  

noun

  1. a fighter plane equipped to accompany other planes, especially bombers, on missions as a protection against air attack.

Etymology

Origin of escort fighter

First recorded in 1945–50

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training