airplane

Definitions

1. aeroplane, airplane, plane
2. A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
   Canada, Philippines, US
3. hopscotch
4. A game to encourage small children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth.
   Canada, Philippines, US
5. martin, swallow

Equivalents

Examples

“So, he'd take⟳ a spoon and he'd start⟳ playing airplane, circling the spoon around in the air until it was ready to land⟳ in the runway of my mouth.”

“Willis wondered what this fellow wanted to do, spoon feed⟳ him? Play⟳ airplane?”

“For instance, Jan has taken to playing airplane with the spoon to get⟳ Charley to attend⟳ to the spoon and want⟳ to take⟳ it into his mouth.”

CEFR level