gull wing

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noun

an airplane wing that slants briefly upward from the fuselage and then extends horizontally outward.

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Origin of gull wing

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby gull wing

gullet, gulley, gullible, Gulliver's Travels, Gullstrand, gull wing, gully, gullywasher, gulosity, gulp, gulper eel

Other definitions for gull wing (2 of 2)

gull-wing

[ guhl-wing ]

/ ˈgʌlˌwɪŋ /

adjective

(of an automobile door) hinged at the top and opening upward.

having gull-wing doors: a gull-wing sports car.

having or resembling airplane gull wings.

Origin of gull-wing

First recorded in 1930–35

How to use gull wing in a sentence

To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire|Lloyd Grove|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
There is, however, a separate wing of AQAP designed to inspire their followers to conduct attacks against the West.
U.S. Spies See Al Qaeda Fingerprints on Paris Massacre|Shane Harris, Nancy A. Youssef|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He sometimes surmised that it was because he was too outspokenly identified with the diminished liberal wing of the party.
Ed Brooke: The Senate's Civil Rights Pioneer and Prophet of a Post-Racial America|John Avlon|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.
Rush Limbaugh’s Fear of a Black James Bond|Dean Obeidallah|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

After 50 years, members of the Huna Tlingit people can finally collect harvest sea gull eggs again in Glacier National Park.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive|Ben Jacobs|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
His idea was that there would be ample time later to order a concentration on either wing or on the centre.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
As it was he had to press Nejdi into a fast gallop before he could clear the left wing of the advancing army.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
The male Black Redstart has also a white patch on the wing caused by the pale, nearly white, margins of the feathers.
Birds of Guernsey (1879)|Cecil Smith
I watched him wing his god-like way up through the still, soft air till he was lost to view.
Uncanny Tales|Various

British Dictionary definitions for gull wing

gull-wing

/ (ˈɡʌlˌwɪŋ) /

adjective

(of a car door) opening upwards

(of an aircraft wing) having a short upward-sloping inner section and a longer horizontal outer section

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