glip

English

Etymology

Blend of glide +‎ skip

Verb

glip (third-person singular simple present glips, present participle glipping, simple past and past participle glipped)

1. (military, transitive) To bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th Missile Squadron during World War II.
   • 1961, Office of Air Force History, Air Force Combat Units of World War II, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 220

     Received a DUC for developing and using a special (glip) bombing technique against enemy bridges in French Indochina.

   • 2000, James Vesely, Unlike Any Land You Know: The 490th Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India, iUniverse, page 102:

     To successfully 'glip' a bridge, a deliberate passage through the concentration of small arms, machine gun and automatic weapons fire, and often blossoming, white puffs of time-fused mortar shells, was essential.

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