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Connie noun- a Constellation airliner US
An aircraft that in the 1950s and 1960s linked countries and continents. In 2004, the Dutch National Aviodrome museum completed the restoration of a Lockheed L-749 Constellation. The project was titled “Connie Comeback.” - Nobody from L.A. wants to ride a DC-3 over mountains when he can take a Connie and make it in seven hours to Mexico City. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, p. 26, 1953
- a Royal Enfield “Constellation” motorcycle, introduced in 1958 UK
- — Douglas Dunford, Motorcycle Department, Beaulieu Motor Museum, 1979
- a Lincoln Continental car US
- They’re the owners of record for about nine Lincoln Connies and at least four Cads. — George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Doyle, p. 98, 1971
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