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  • noun Plural form of hydrofoil.

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Examples

  • A fleet of commuter aircraft and hydrofoils to ferry people to and from shore

    Will Your Kids Live in a Floating City? « Colleen Anderson 2009

  • These are small sailcraft, not much bigger than sailboards, if that, rigged with hydrofoils.

    Moths Steve Perry 2010

  • If you're at all like me, this is what you do with the sunny summer weekends in San Francisco: you build experimental kite-powered hydrofoils capable of more than 30 knots.

    Saul Griffith's kites tap wind energy 2009

  • He also invented the metal detector and dabbled in hydrofoils, aeronautics, and eugenics including boards that advocated the compulsory sterilization of people deemed to be defective.

    Alexia's London: Supper March 10, 1876 gailcarriger 2009

  • If you're at all like me, this is what you do with the sunny summer weekends in San Francisco: you build experimental kite-powered hydrofoils capable of more than 30 knots.

    Saul Griffith's kites tap wind energy 2009

  • If you're at all like me, this is what you do with the sunny summer weekends in San Francisco: you build experimental kite-powered hydrofoils capable of more than 30 knots.

    Saul Griffith's kites tap wind energy 2009

  • The internet, grunge, synthetic underwear, hydrofoils, monotheism--none of these had been invented by 1983.

    The Future is Meh, the Apocalypse is Nigh: Tempting Fate BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • He also invented the metal detector and dabbled in hydrofoils, aeronautics, and eugenics including boards that advocated the compulsory sterilization of people deemed to be defective.

    Alexia's London: Supper March 10, 1876 gailcarriger 2009

  • Think of it as a bike or scooter for the water ... but instead of peddling you jump ... and instead of wheels you have hydrofoils.

    Archive 2007-08-05 Bill Crider 2007

  • Think of it as a bike or scooter for the water ... but instead of peddling you jump ... and instead of wheels you have hydrofoils.

    It Will Be Too Cold at Christmas. . . Bill Crider 2007

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