egg-beater

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egg-beater

1. n. an outboard boat motor. My egg-beater has been acting up, so I didn’t go out on the lake today.

2. n. a helicopter. (see also rotorhead.) The egg-beater landed on the hospital roof.

References in classic literature ?

Paul's cheery soprano, lifted in a hymn, doated through the trees, accompanied by the whirr of an egg-beater.

And my dad conjures an image of his days as an intern back at Hopkins in '68, when my mom, pregnant with me, gave him a metal egg-beater bowl to wear on his head on his drive past rioters to get to the hospital.

'Watching': a Poem for Baltimore, by Jeremy Sigler

Jamie Oliver "Don't come that old parking ticket malarkey with me," says chef Jamie, "it's not a scooter, it's just a souped-up egg-beater.

M SEEING STARS: Double yellow fever; Watch out... there's always a traffic warden about just when you least expect it. And even the celebrities aren't safe... By STEVE PURCELL

Tonight his arms whirl like a pair of angry egg-beaters as he decides the Woolpack's not worthy of his fine dining talents and so he's off to pastures new.