"glip" meaning in English

See glip in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: glips [present, singular, third-person], glipping [participle, present], glipped [participle, past], glipped [past]
Etymology: Blend of glide + skip Etymology templates: {{blend|en|glide|skip}} Blend of glide + skip Head templates: {{en-verb}} glip (third-person singular simple present glips, present participle glipping, simple past and past participle glipped)
  1. (military, transitive) To bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th Missile Squadron during World War II. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-glip-en-verb-a~2UEaip Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header Topics: government, military, politics, war

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for glip meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "glide",
        "3": "skip"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of glide + skip",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of glide + skip",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "glips",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glipping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glipped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glipped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "glip (third-person singular simple present glips, present participle glipping, simple past and past participle glipped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, Office of Air Force History, Air Force Combat Units of World War II, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 220",
          "text": "Received a DUC for developing and using a special (glip) bombing technique against enemy bridges in French Indochina."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, James Vesely, Unlike Any Land You Know: The 490th Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India, iUniverse, page 102",
          "text": "To successfully 'glip' a bridge, a deliberate passage through the concentration of small arms, machine gun and automatic weapons fire, and often blossoming, white puffs of time-fused mortar shells, was essential.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th Missile Squadron during World War II."
      ],
      "id": "en-glip-en-verb-a~2UEaip",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military, transitive) To bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th Missile Squadron during World War II."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "glip"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "glide",
        "3": "skip"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of glide + skip",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of glide + skip",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "glips",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glipping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glipped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glipped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "glip (third-person singular simple present glips, present participle glipping, simple past and past participle glipped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, Office of Air Force History, Air Force Combat Units of World War II, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 220",
          "text": "Received a DUC for developing and using a special (glip) bombing technique against enemy bridges in French Indochina."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, James Vesely, Unlike Any Land You Know: The 490th Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India, iUniverse, page 102",
          "text": "To successfully 'glip' a bridge, a deliberate passage through the concentration of small arms, machine gun and automatic weapons fire, and often blossoming, white puffs of time-fused mortar shells, was essential.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th Missile Squadron during World War II."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military, transitive) To bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th Missile Squadron during World War II."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "glip"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.