Stukan.
/ˈstuːkə/, /ˈʃtuːkə/, U.S. /ˈstukə/, /ˈʃtukə/ A dive-bomber of the German air force, esp. as used in the war of 1939–45.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > bomber > of specific manufacture
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Stuka1940
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1940 Sun (Baltimore) 23 May 1/5 The awful destruction which German Stukas (dive bombers) wreak.
1942 Ann. Reg. 1941 12 On January 10 German Stuka dive-bombers..made an attack..on a British convoy.
1942 Daily Tel. 23 Mar. 1/5 Fighters and stukas operate from the more forward flying ground at Tmimi.
1946 A. Lee German Air Force iii. 37 The Stuka pilot went straight to a specialist dive-bomber school.
1956 D. M. Davin Sullen Bell vii. 151 Sounds worse than a lot of screaming stukas.
1962 Times 7 June 16/5 After the drone of Stukas has died away.
1969 G. MacBeth War Quartet 21 So we would die..Picked into pulp by stukas.
1973 S. B. Jackman Guns covered with Flowers viii. 127 This was how the Stuka pilots must have seen it [sc. Warsaw], open and defenceless in the bomb-sights.
1980 Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 16/5 Sunset and sand. Stukas and sand. Food, flies, hospital, home—and sand.
Derivatives
ˈstuka v. transitive (passive) to be attacked by Stukas.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (intransitive)] > be attacked by Stukas
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1946 Amer. Speech 21 208 I served with the British Eighth Army in the desert.., but I never heard sand happy. Bomb happy, yes, when a bloke had been Stuka'd too often.
1977 N. Faulks No Mitigating Circumstances vii. 80 On one lovely afternoon, I was sitting there with the G3 when we were Stuka'ed.
1980 Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 16/6 One moves from page to page, one moment ‘brewing up’, another being ‘stuka-ed’, to the cameo of a desert sunset.
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