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  • adjective Resembling a helmet.

Etymologies

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helmet +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The man who appears on those tapes has darker, more helmetlike hair than today's Democratic nominee, but otherwise his moves are just the same as the ones Kerry used against his rivals Dean, Gephardt, and Edwards in the Democratic-primary debates.

    When George Meets John 2004

  • The man who appears on those tapes has darker, more helmetlike hair than today's Democratic nominee, but otherwise his moves are just the same as the ones Kerry used against his rivals Dean, Gephardt, and Edwards in the Democratic-primary debates.

    When George Meets John 2004

  • Tobin glanced at the Chrysler Building, which he knew was 1,046 feet tall to the very tip of its helmetlike vertex.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • Tobin glanced at the Chrysler Building, which he knew was 1,046 feet tall to the very tip of its helmetlike vertex.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • Tobin glanced at the Chrysler Building, which he knew was 1,046 feet tall to the very tip of its helmetlike vertex.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • Tobin glanced at the Chrysler Building, which he knew was 1,046 feet tall to the very tip of its helmetlike vertex.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • The oddly keeled skull was different, too, as was the helmetlike headpiece.

    Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • She glimmered all over, and was suddenly the wicked queen from Snow White, in a long black gown with trailing sleeves and a tight, helmetlike black hood.

    War for the Oaks Bull, Emma, 1954- 1987

  • A deceptively thin helmetlike device cupped his head, holding it immobile.

    The Last Starfighter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- Last starfighter 1984

  • On his legs were gaiters, and on his head a helmetlike affair of cloth with a visor in front and another behind, with eartabs fastened at the crown with a piece of black ribbon -- in other words a "Glengarry."

    The Man Who Rocked the Earth Arthur Cheney Train 1910

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