coffin corner
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A situation in which the aircraft cannot increase or decrease its airspeed without stalling or buffeting.
noun
A corner of the field formed by the opponent's goal line and a sideline, into which a punt is often aimed in order to force the opposition to play close to their goal line.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffin, corner.
Example Sentences
- "We'd though that because of the TNT we might be somewhere in the middle. But we got the rear corner on the starboard side. They call that the coffin corner."
- "Suddenly we spotted her coming directly for the Spencer, since the Spencer was the last ship in the column next to the sun ('coffin corner,' it is called.)"
- "Forgetting he was an officer, I shot back, "Friend, you didn't draw coffin corner because of me, I drew it because of you!""
- "However, most survivors remembered it as positioned in "coffin corner", where it was especially vulnerable to attack from the air or by submarine, thus the name."
- "He had been rostered in the safest position—high element number three—but now when he came to take off he was back in low number two—”coffin corner.”"
- "Also, at a briefing that morning, we learned much to our dismay that once again our squadron's position in the formation was to be at the tail end of the lower left echelon, the infamous “coffin corner.""