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flying wedge
noun
- a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.
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Among other changes, they eliminated the flying wedge and allowed the forward pass, which made the game marginally safer.
From Los Angeles Times
It looks like a flying wedge - known in the trade as a blended-wing design.
From BBC
Mass momentum plays like the flying wedge were also common.
From Slate
On Wednesday, the Democrats’ onside kick off an impeachment that will come to a predictable end under the cleats of Mitch McConnell’s flying wedge.
From Fox News
The setup pushed the tone forward — brass and woodwinds became a flying wedge, breaking through the line of the proscenium — a brawny, punchy sound that was exploited to the hilt in a brisk, brash reading of Dvorak’s Op.
From Washington Post
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