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- noun Plural form of
flattop .
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Examples
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If the 'flattops' do not enter service, they make no sense and cancelling them can save £15 billion.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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However, the US Navy is run by carrier admirals who are as loathe to junk their flattops as were battleship admirals early in World War II.
Eric Margolis: The North Pacific Is No Longer an American Lake Eric Margolis 2011
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But the plan assumed that the U.S. flattops would be idling at Pearl Harbor as their invasion began.
The Beginning of the End James D. Hornfischer 2011
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The China Post reports that at 67,000 tons, the carrier is two-thirds the size of the 100,000 ton American Nimitz-class flattops.
Peter Winter: The Interwoven Era: The US, China and its New Aircraft Carrier Peter Winter 2011
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Hellcat fighters prepare to launch from USS Randolph, one of sixteen flattops engaged in the first carrier raids against the Japanese home islands in February 1945.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Since carriers were still an unknown quantity, and not deemed major combatants, the conferees allowed conversion of battleships and battle cruisers to flattops.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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In my senior high school class picture, with one exception, the boys all wear their hair combed back or close-cropped in crewcuts or flattops, and none of it is long.
Androgyny Steve Perry 2010
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Riding those sixteen flattops off Honshu were 1,187 airplanes: 895 Hellcat and Corsair fighters, 201 Avenger torpedo planes, and ninety-one Helldiver dive bombers.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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In my senior high school class picture, with one exception, the boys all wear their hair combed back or close-cropped in crewcuts or flattops, and none of it is long.
Archive 2010-03-01 Steve Perry 2010
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Riding those sixteen flattops off Honshu were 1,187 airplanes: 895 Hellcat and Corsair fighters, 201 Avenger torpedo planes, and ninety-one Helldiver dive bombers.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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