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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

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

From Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! by Frederick Orlin Tremaine

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 Martin Brown Ruud

And many a heart there silently recalled the old song about the cloister robbery and looked at Oluf Tyste: "Krist gif en sadan Angel Kom, tog båd mig och dig!"

From Pictures of Sweden by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Each mig being just forty-five minutes in length.

From Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! by Frederick Orlin Tremaine

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 Robert Gordon Anderson

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

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

The permission was needed because Germany used to own the Soviet-designed MiG 29 planes, which were part of communist East Germany’s military fleet.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

Other Nato countries are considering sending Soviet-era planes such as the MiG, which Ukrainian pilots are trained to fly.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2023

He told them, for example, that the U-2 plane had not been shot down by a single missile, as Khrushchev had announced publicly, but by fourteen rockets, and by MiG fighter jets as well.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau