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whirlybird noun a helicopter US, 1951- — American Speech, February 1953
- Over 100,000 people squeezed into the Meadow listening to speakers under leaden skies and the annoying obligato of Mayor Lindsay’s whirlybirds. — Sidney Bernard, This Way to the Apocalypse, p. 55, 1968
- Hey, Fort Rucker, have you heard? / I’m gonna fly me a whirly bird. — Sandee Shaffer Johnson, Cadences, p. 100, 1986
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