单词 | black helicopter |
释义 | > as lemmasblack helicopter black helicopter n. and adj. U.S. (a) n. (in the context of various conspiracy theories) an unmarked, dark-coloured helicopter believed to be involved in sinister or covert activities, esp. relating to the establishment of a global government; (b) adj. (attributive) of or relating to belief in conspiracies of this type (cf. tinfoil hat n. Compounds a). ΚΠ 1976 Havre (Montana) Daily News 2 July 2/6 There are numerous reports of unidentified flying objects... Black helicopters, unclaimed by any agency or firm, hover over the Montana countryside. 1987 K. Anderson Sympathy for Devil iii. 331 We love those black helicopters and all that spook stuff. 1994 J. Keith Black Helicopters over Amer. i. 18 We are able to first document sightings of the black helicopters beginning in August of 1971, in Lake County, Colorado. 1995 Boston Herald (Nexis) 7 May The favorite conspiracy script of the right-wing ‘one world’ paranoiacs..can be loosely dubbed ‘the Black Helicopter Theory’. 1996 Economist 14 Dec. 53/2 Because of black-helicopter paranoia, this calm counsel will probably get lost in alarmism. 1998 E. Davis TechGnosis (1999) viii. 225 Thousands of otherwise ordinary citizens have reported run-ins with..black helicopters, chupacabras, and almond-eyed extraterrestrials armed with anal probes. 2010 M. Labash Fly Fishing with Darth Vader 237 He rubs turpentine in the wounds of black-helicopter types, saying that he believes in the United Nations so strongly. < as lemmas |
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