landing strip

landing strip

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Noun

landing strip (plural landing strips)

1. (aviation) A runway for aircraft, especially one which is auxiliary or temporary.
   • 2005, Rosalind Ryan, The Guardian, 9 August:

     As Discovery headed towards the landing strip in the Mojave desert, radio contact between Mission Control and the shuttle was kept to a minimum.

2. (idiomatic) A cultivated pubic hair pattern in which much of the pubic hair is removed, leaving only a central vertical line or rectangle.

Synonyms

• (runway for aircraft): airstrip
• See also Thesaurus:pubic hair

Translations

auxiliary or temporary runway for aircraft

Arabic: مَهْبِط‎ m (mahbiṭ) Azerbaijani: eniş zolağı Bulgarian: писта (bg) (pista) Czech: přistávací plocha f Dutch: landingsbaan (nl) m or f Finnish: lentopaikka (fi); korpikenttä (fi) (informal) French: piste d'atterrissage (fr) f German: Landepiste (de) f, Landebahn (de) f Greek: λωρίδα (el) f (lorída) Hungarian: leszállópálya (hu) Icelandic: flugbraut f, braut (is) f Italian: pista d'atterraggio f Japanese: 滑走路 (かっそうろ, kassōro) Norwegian: Bokmål: landingsstripe m or f Nynorsk: landingsstripe f Portuguese: pista (pt) f Russian: поса́дочная полоса́ f (posádočnaja polosá) Serbo-Croatian: sletna staza, pista (sh) Slovene: pristajalna steza Spanish: pista de aterrizaje f Swedish: landningsbana (sv) c

pubic hair pattern

Finnish: kiitorata (fi) French: ticket de métro (fr) m