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Meaning of bear in the air | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A police helicopter.

slang

Examples

“By the time we got into Tulsa Town We had eighty-five trucks in all But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf And them bears was wall-to-wall. Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper They even had a bear in the air.”
“One of the AMC-supplied Johnson-brand CB radios was handy to keep tabs on Kojaks with Kodaks, or bears in the air.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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