landing strip

English

Noun

landing strip (plural landing strips)

(aviation) A runway for aircraft, especially one which is auxiliary or temporary.
- 2005, Rosalind Ryan, The Guardian, 9 August:
  As Discovery headed towards the landing strip in the Mojave desert, radio contact between Mission Control and the shuttle was kept to a minimum.
(idiomatic) A cultivated pubic hair pattern in which much of the pubic hair is removed, leaving only a central vertical line or rectangle.

Synonyms

(runway for aircraft): airstrip
See also Thesaurus:pubic hair

Translations

auxiliary or temporary runway for aircraft

Bulgarian: писта (bg) (pista)
Czech: přistávací plocha f
Dutch: landingsbaan (nl) m or f
Finnish: lentopaikka (fi); korpikenttä (fi) (informal)
French: piste d'atterrissage (fr) f
Greek: λωρίδα (el) f (lorída)
Hungarian: leszállópálya (hu)
Icelandic: flugbraut f, braut (is) f
Italian: pista d'atterraggio f
Japanese: 滑走路 (かっそうろ, kassōro)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: landingsstripe m or f

Nynorsk: landingsstripe f
Portuguese: pista (pt) f
Russian: поса́дочная полоса́ f (posádočnaja polosá)
Serbo-Croatian: sletna staza, pista (sh)
Slovene: pristajalna steza
Spanish: pista de aterrizaje f
Swedish: landningsbana (sv) c

pubic hair pattern

Finnish: kiitorata (fi)

French: ticket de métro (fr) m

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