hedgehop
verb (used without object)
to fly an airplane at a very low altitude, as for spraying crops or for low-level bombing in warfare.
Example Sentences
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This meant that despite a phenomenal 90% passenger load, record air express cargoes, and higher gross incomes, the industry was barely hedgehopping over the financial woods.
From Time Magazine Archive
A mediocre low-altitude pursuit ship can give short shrift to a crack medium fighter caught hedgehopping.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rhee, too. had come to Suwon by air; his light observation plane had eluded a North Korean fighter only by hedgehopping.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then Eisenhower took Churchill hedgehopping in the helicopter along Lee's line of advance down the Cashtown Road, along the left flank of Pickett's charge, down the Union position from Cemetery Hill to Round Top.
From Time Magazine Archive
An observer would have seen it circle the bush, diving, hedgehopping, even looping, as if practicing all maneuvers possible to Sparrows.
From Keep Your Shape by Robert Sheckley
