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  • noun Plural form of spitfire.

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Examples

  • Eva Mendez - Two Latin spitfires make our list this year.

    Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed Roger Stone 2012

  • This DC3 landed while the spitfires circled overhead to give the mechanics cover while they worked on the crippled machine.

    Walter (Bill) Gossner 2010

  • So last year I switched to spitfires and although they did fly very well I am not too confident with them based on last years results.

    Mechanical Broadhead Debate 2009

  • So last year I switched to spitfires and although they did fly very well I am not too confident with them based on last years results.

    Mechanical Broadhead Debate 2009

  • At daylight the following morning we heard planes approaching and from our hide out saw a single D. C.3 with an escort of ten spitfires overhead.

    Walter (Bill) Gossner 2010

  • Eva Mendez - Two Latin spitfires make our list this year.

    Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed Roger Stone 2012

  • We've seen so many standouts — including the barely clad Chase, who really knows how to expose his technique; "naughty girl" Jordan Casanova, who's really a good girl; and spitfires like "Lil O" and father-to-be "D.C."

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2011

  • When it's good, it's very very good: Ian McNeice - that's Baron Harkonnen to you - as Sir Winston Churchill, the War Rooms setting, and the inevitable spitfires vs flying saucers scenes are all cool, and the appearance of the Daleks as soldiers - trusted by Churchill and the British - is extremely sinister.

    World War II In Colour [Review: Victory Of The Daleks. Spoilers] Sci-Fi Gene 2010

  • When it's good, it's very very good: Ian McNeice - that's Baron Harkonnen to you - as Sir Winston Churchill, the War Rooms setting, and the inevitable spitfires vs flying saucers scenes are all cool, and the appearance of the Daleks as soldiers - trusted by Churchill and the British - is extremely sinister.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2010

  • For example, the Israelis in the war of Independence bought hardware from communist Czechoslovakia, flying Messerschmits against British spitfires given by the Brits to the Egyptians.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

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