to bail out. intransitive. Originally U.S. Of a person: to make an emergency descent by parachute from an aeroplane.
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释义 | society > travel > air or space travel > parachuting > parachute [verb (intransitive)] > jump out of aircraft > in emergency (5) to bail out1925 to bail out. intransitive. Originally U.S. Of a person: to make an emergency descent by parachute from an aeroplane. to take to or hit the silk1933 A parachute; chiefly in to take toor hit the silk, to bale out of an aircraft by parachute. U.S.A.F. slang. to hit the silk1941 Various phrases. to hit the silk: see quot. 1941. colloquial. to step out1942 To parachute out of a (disabled) aircraft. R.A.F. slang. to punch out1964 intransitive. Aeronautics and Astronautics slang.to punch out: to eject from an aircraft or spacecraft; to bail out. |
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