eggbeater
eggbeater — noun
1. a small kitchen tool that you turn by hand to mix eggs or beat air into cream un
a small kitchen tool that you turn by hand to mix eggs or beat air into cream until it becomes thick
Sahil cracked four eggs into a bowl and reached for the metal eggbeater.
tool used for mixing eggs by hand
The old eggbeater squeaked loudly every time Ada turned its little handle.
hand-turned tool with a handle
Grandma whipped the cream with an eggbeater instead of buying an electric mixer.
Two children took turns spinning the eggbeater to froth the warm milk.
A rusty eggbeater hung on the kitchen wall beside the wooden spoons.
- whisk
a wire tool you swing by hand; an eggbeater has gears and blades you crank
- hand mixer
usually electric, where an eggbeater works only by turning a handle
用法筆記
Refers to the simple hand-cranked version with rotating blades; a powered version is usually called an electric mixer or hand mixer instead.
2. an informal word for a helicopter, named because its spinning top blades look li
an informal word for a helicopter, named because its spinning top blades look like the turning blades of a kitchen beater
The soldiers cheered when the rescue eggbeater finally appeared above the ridge.
informal word for a helicopter
Cyrus pointed at the sky and shouted that an eggbeater was circling the harbor.
slang for an aircraft with rotor blades
Pilots at the small airfield jokingly called their noisy old helicopter the eggbeater.
A yellow eggbeater landed on the hospital roof to drop off an injured climber.
- helicopter
the neutral, standard term; eggbeater is the joking informal version
- chopper
another informal word for a helicopter, more common in everyday speech
用法筆記
Informal and somewhat dated; used mostly in casual speech or by pilots and soldiers, not in formal aviation writing where 'helicopter' is standard.