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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A carefully coached armada of more than 100 Lightnings raced across the Mediterranean and the Italian boot, roared across the dusty plain around Foggia, at hedgehopping altitude, caught the Germans by surprise.
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
The thin-skinned grasshoppers carry no machine guns; in the air they would be easy meat if surprised by a hedgehopping enemy fighter.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1948 production was down to 7,039 planes; three years later it was hedgehopping, with only 2,279 units worth $14 million.
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
