mig

¹

Or migg

[mig]

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.

MiG

²

Or Mig,

[mig]

noun

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

MiG

/ mɪɡ /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mig¹

from Mi ( koyan ) and G ( urevich ), names of designers

Example Sentences

The first time he throttled the MiG‑21 to full power, soaring 20km above the Earth at twice the speed of sound, the young fighter pilot felt utterly weightless, as if the sky itself had let him go.

From BBC

"I loved flying the MiG-21 the way a bird loves the sky. In combat it protected me - when the hawk comes for the bird, the clever bird gets away. That's what the MiG-21 was for me," he told me.

From BBC

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

From BBC

Between 1971‑72 and April 2012, 482 MiG crashes were recorded, claiming 171 pilots, 39 civilians, eight service personnel and one aircrew, "caused by both human error and technical defects".

From BBC

"The MiG-21 has a chequered legacy. The fighter was the mainstay of the IAF for over three decades and served in various roles in all of India's conflicts since the 1965 Pakistan war," says Rahul Bhatia, an analyst at Eurasia Group, a geopolitical risk consulting firm.

From BBC