yellow shirt
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sailor on an aircraft carrier responsible for directing aircraft.
noun
Alternative form of Yellow Shirt.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, shirt.
noun
A member of the Popular Alliance for Democracy (PAD), the organization responsible for the coup d'etat in Thailand in 2006.
noun
Alternative form of yellow shirt.
Example Sentences
- "I was extremely happy and excited when promoted to yellow shirt, but I was scared because I didn't want to make any mistakes or get chewed out for doing something wrong."
- "Then, out of the comer of my eye, I saw a blue shirt get blown down the flight deck. I saw a yellow shirt run up to him and drag him to safety."
- "But too much turn, and the plane could start to slide and skid across the slippery flight deck. Caskey inched his Tomcat forward. As he approached the shuttle, the yellow shirt slowed his lighted wands."
- "Yellow shirts seized control of that all-important symbol of globalization that Darrell Berrigan had once written about — the airport — its tourists determining Thailand's future by either passing through or staying."
- "The fact is my father is one of the leading activists against the yellow shirts. You do know about the situation in Bangkok?"
- "I had just missed the red shirt rally in Pattaya months earlier, and somehow I missed flying to Suvarnabhumi Airport the week that the yellow shirts occupied it."