Lindbergh

[ lind-burg, lin- ]

noun

1. Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).
2. Charles Augustus, 1902–74, U.S. aviator: made the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight 1927.

Lindbergh

/ ˈlɪndbɜːɡ; ˈlɪnbɜːɡ /

noun

1. LindberghCharles Augustus19021974MUSTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: aviator Charles Augustus. 1902–74, US aviator, who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic (1927)

Example Sentences

Those two incidents would bring charges under the state’s Little Lindbergh Law, which permitted the death penalty in kidnapping with bodily injury.

From Los Angeles Times

Lindbergh loathed politics, but he was the world’s foremost expert on air power, and he felt obliged to correct the common misperception that planes had rendered America suddenly vulnerable to foreign attack.

From Salon

The premise of “Plot” is chilling enough: The aviator and isolationist Charles Lindbergh wins the election of 1940, ushering in an era of Nazi appeasement and state-sanctioned anti-Semitism.

From New York Times

Trump is as if Huey Long married Charles Lindbergh and they had a baby.

From Salon

In the decades since, as the keepers of the Lindbergh kidnapping archives can attest, public interest in the case has never subsided — nor has skepticism about Hauptmann’s guilt.

From Seattle Times