Definitions for airstrip

airstrip air·strip

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IPA: /ˈɛərˌstrɪp/

Airstrip is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 206 anagrams from letters in airstrip (aiiprrst).

Definitions for airstrip

noun

  1. a small landing field having only one runway.
  2. a temporary or auxiliary aircraft runway.

Origin of airstrip

First recorded in 1940-45; air1 + strip2

Examples for airstrip

The engineer tapped on the microphone, and the tap, greatly amplified, reverberated across the airstrip.

Then the firing area was passed and the jeep sped along next to the miles-long black, oiled path of the airstrip.

But as the decades passed, airplanes replaced steamboats and folks abandoned Old Bettles to live near the airstrip.

At Umiat (June 25, 1952), ptarmigan were using seven dusting pits on the shoulder of the airstrip.

Shandor took a cab to the Georgetown airstrip, checked the fuel in the 'copter.

He saw several flocks of ducks including one containing "about a dozen ducks" at ponds along a roadway and at an airstrip.

Growing up in Lukla, Pasang watched planes land at the airstrip near her village.

Word Value for airstrip
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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