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wings
[ wingz ]
noun
- Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
- a gold-embroidered green badge in the shape of a spread pair of bird wings worn by junior and cadette Girl Scouts to indicate previous membership in a Brownie troop.
Example Sentences
Colonel Gaddafi of Libya and Saddam Hussein of Iraq were removed without a ready-made replacement waiting in the wings.
The actor shared his thoughts about the 2016 sequel while eating extra spicy chicken wings on the season 25 finale of “Hot Ones.”
“Somebody Somewhere” doesn’t end with a benevolent monarch returned to the throne, the forces of evil destroyed or Sam making her Broadway debut while Iceland beams at her from the wings.
It has more than 24,000 lights and about 150 props - including LED Christmas trees, candy canes and angel wings.
Despite the often well-understood ecological drivers that favour the presence or absence of melanin in the wings of these lepidopterans, the genetic and developmental basis of changes in colouration has remained unclear.
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