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- noun Plural form of
jet-pack .
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Examples
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According to science-fiction, in 2025 we should have jet-packs and manned flights to Jupiter.
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But don't worry, even though they run around with samurai swords and jet-packs, they still possess the vaudeville-like wit and humor that made their ancestors famous.
SCI-FIVE: Five Cartoon Visions of the Future Kevin Maher 2010
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By the turn of the century we'd all be going to work in our jet-packs and we'd each have a hovercraft.
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But don't worry, even though they run around with samurai swords and jet-packs, they still possess the vaudeville-like wit and humor that made their ancestors famous.
Archive 2010-02-01 Kevin Maher 2010
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We already live in a future of flying cars and jet-packs and private submarines - it's just that these are reserved for the people who count, not the peasantry like us.
Never reply to speam amuchmoreexotic 2008
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It's like imaginary things coming to life, like all the things he thought would be the future when he was a kid, and was disappointed by (where's our jet-packs, dammit?).
Archive 2007-11-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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It's like imaginary things coming to life, like all the things he thought would be the future when he was a kid, and was disappointed by (where's our jet-packs, dammit?).
To Err Is Human, to Forgive...Human Heather McDougal 2007
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There are one or two flat moments - his whale-watcher character especially seemed to lack a point and, more importantly, many laughs – and it seems that Darby is at a cross-roads in terms of his stand-up: does he continue as before, all robots and jet-packs, or confront his new-found celebrity and go down a story-teller route?
Archive 2009-08-01 annawaits 2009
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In addition to driving silent swoopy cars, is there the implication of jet-packs in the garage and gyroscopic martini shakers in the rumpus room?
Wired Top Stories 2009
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So, in the future, when we all use jet-packs to fly around, hang out with clones of our cats and live half our lives in virtuosity, I'll support clean coal.
Simran Sethi: The Oxymoron of Clean Coal (Joe Biden Had it Right Before He Had it Wrong.) 2009
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