coffin corner

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The position in a formation of ships or bombers that is most exposed to enemy fire.
    — We'd though that because of the TNT we might be somewhere in the middle. But we got the rear corner on the starboard side. They call that the coffin corner.
  2. A situation in which the aircraft cannot increase or decrease its airspeed without stalling or buffeting.
    — Here, in fact, is the so-called “coffin corner,” with the pilot juggling the throttle betwixt buffeting and highspeed stalling.
  3. A corner of the field formed by the opponent's goal line and a sideline, into which a punt is often aimed in order to force the opposition to play close to their goal line.
    — During that second half, Carideo, one of Notre Dame's greatest punters, repeatedly kept SMU bottled up deep in its own territory on “coffin-corner” punts which invariably went out of bounds inside the Mustangs' 10-yard line.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffin, corner.
    — Last of all she paints the little dog with his leg cocked over the coffin corner.

词形变化

coffin corners plural
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