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wings

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //wɪŋz//

A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of wingplural of wing

noun

  1. 1

    A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing

  2. 2

    A flip (hairstyle).

    Near-synonym: head wings

  3. 3

    figurativeA pilot's license, the legal authorization to operate an aircraft.

    After being found liable for the crash that killed several passengers, the captain of the downed airliner lost his wings.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of wingthird-person singular simple present indicative of wing

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).