Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An aerobridge.
Etymologies
- From jet + way (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The back-from-the-brink star said a lawsuit filed Thursday by a 57-year-old woman who says he assaulted her on a jetway is a fabrication by a "professional litigant" looking for a payday.”
“He managed to board the flight; the plane's door was shut and the "jetway" linking the terminal to the door had already been retracted when officers of the Homeland Security Department's Customs and Border Protection unit, who had sent the flight's final passenger manifest to an interagency Terrorist Screening Center in Washington for a last-minute review, received notice that Shahzad had boarded the plane.”
“Even now in his weakened state when it would take all his strength, fortitude and focus to get from his seat in the plane to the wheelchair awaiting us in the jetway, he called forth the Holy Spirit and the entire MSIA ministerial body to assist in the landing.”
The Huffington Post: Carol Jones: The Plane Ride Home From Houston
“Now it was time to retrace our steps, making our way from our seats on the plane to the wheelchair in the jetway.”
The Huffington Post: Carol Jones: The Plane Ride Home From Houston
“When he first saw Port Authority officers on the Gate 4 jetway at about 4:40 p.m., Mr. Strauss-Kahn asked them, "Do you have my cellphone?”
“Second, it appears that DHS pulled Shahzad off the plane after the jetway had been withdrawn.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Travel Data Leads to Times Square Bomb Arrest
“Did they have an accomplice who met them in the jetway?”
The Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page: Sept. 12, 2001
“With my security pass I would make my way into the jetway, line up my bags and await my customers.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page: Sept. 12, 2001
“I have diplomatic immunity," he said after police officers took him into custody on an Air France terminal jetway, according to a court document filed by prosecutors.”
The Wall Street Journal: Strauss-Kahn, Under Arrest, in Legal Limbo
“Walking down the jetway, I mused that one key to the charm of the young in our species, among others, was the role of the eyes.”
The Huffington Post: Harry Shearer: Don't Demonize Political Opponents, Infantilize Them
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jetway’.
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ways
As in routes, avenues & tracts. Omitting, e.g., halfway, anyway, sideways, folkway, Haddaway. (many of those are found thisways)
alleyway, Broadway, highway, hatchway, archway, thruway, railway, doorway, runway, skyway, hallway, shaftway and 79 more...
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genericized trademarks
Trademarked names that people use to refer to the thing in general, regardless of maker.
xerox, saran wrap, play-doh, silly putty, jell-o, crapper, band-aid, sharpie, biro, bic, zippo, thermos and 81 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, airbus, alnico, adware, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, boxercise, bakelite, bromo, atebrin and 774 more...
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