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• mig
  mig

  noun

  a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
• MiG
  MiG

  noun

  any of several Russian-built fighter aircraft, as the MiG-15, a jet used in the Korean War.

mig

¹ American  

[mig] / mɪg /

Or migg

noun

Chiefly Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S.

1. a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.

2. (used with a singular verb) migs, the game of marbles.

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MiG ² American  

[mig] / mɪg /

Or Mig,

noun

1. any of several Russian-built fighter aircraft, as the MiG-15, a jet used in the Korean War.

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MiG British  

/ mɪɡ /

noun

1. any of various types of Russian and former Soviet fighter aircraft

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Etymology

Origin of mig¹

Perhaps variant of mib with g from game ¹

Origin of MiG²

Named after Artem Mi(koyan) and Mikhail G(urevich), Russian aircraft designers

Example Sentences

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mig MiG

They were able to keep track of each mig, by their watches, although the time pieces were useless for any other purpose.

From Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! by Tremaine, Frederick Orlin

They were very beautiful, too, but somehow Marmaduke loved the first blue croaker and the bright agate and the little gray mig best of all.

From Half-Past Seven Stories by Anderson, Robert Gordon

Meaning of big, wig, mig, &c.; of hat, oyster, &c.; of eight, octo, &c.; of nigh, near, night, &c.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various

For the line He was my friend, faithful and just to me. our author has: Han var min Ven, trofast og oprigtig mod mig!

From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Ruud, Martin Brown

The people work one mig out of each lix, Dick.

From Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! by Tremaine, Frederick Orlin

Its air force was once considered to be among the best in Latin America, with modern Soviet MiG jet fighters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

According to official figures, between 1966 and 1980, India procured 872 MiG aircraft of various models.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025

Poland has supplied Ukraine with a wide range of weaponry, including Leopard 2 tanks and Soviet-era MiG fighter jets.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

It claimed it downed a military MiG fighter jet.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

I vomited on a tangle of weeds, my retching and groaning drowned in the deafening roar of the MiG.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini