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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

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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 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

As sweet as mig is a common simile; I suspect that mig means mead, the liquor made from honey.

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings

Each mig being just forty-five minutes in length.

From Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! by Frederick Orlin Tremaine

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

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

A few weeks after the crash, the wreckage of a Libyan MiG, with the badly decomposed body of its pilot, was discovered in the remote mountains of southern Calabria.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

“He thinks that one person is a robot capable of assaulting a trench, securing the enemy’s logistics hub, capturing an airport, stealing an MiG jet and landing it in Moscow, right?”

From Washington Times ● May 4, 2023

As if on cue, a MiG suddenly screamed past overhead.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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