bungee
Aeronautics. any of certain springs or elastic tension devices, as the springs attached to movable controls of aircraft to facilitate their manipulation.
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How to use bungee in a sentence
The padded handle keeps the grip comfortable, while the double ones attach with a 360-degree swivel and are made of bungee cord to offer some tension and pressure relief for active dogs.
Research has shown that they are likelier to be risk-takers—skydivers and bungee jumpers as opposed to skiers and polo players.
What Meghan and Harry's New Daughter Needs to Know About Being a Second-Born | Jeffrey Kluger | June 7, 2021 | TimeA bungee system straps down any sweat- or rain-soaked layers that need to air out.
My chair, which uses bungee cables as the back support and which I purchased at a steep discount from a Target in Florida, has served me well for close to a decade.
Everything I Learned in My Quest for a Better Work-From-Home Chair | Patrick Lucas Austin | July 29, 2020 | TimeEven more luckily, that bungee cord was short enough to keep it from crashing.
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Even a brief dive—a bungee jump, if you will—would be scary indeed.
Megan McArdle on Why We Need to Jump Off the Fiscal Cliff | Megan McArdle | November 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHarvey: Things like bungee-jumping or skydiving scare me, but not because of the height.
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