flying saucer

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ˌflying ˈsaucer noun [countable]  TTSa large round spacecraft from somewhere else in space, that some people believe they have seen in the sky 飞碟 → UFO

Examples from the Corpus

flying saucer• He said, too, that he had been kidnapped by a flying saucer in 1967.• He would not raise his eyes to the sky, though he knew there was a flying saucer from Tralfamadore up there.• His flying saucer, however, is made of glass fibre and runs on compressed air.• On this particular occasion however, it is a nifty little flying saucer.• If you stare at the flying saucer long enough it begins to vibrate.

ˌflying ˈsaucer nounChineseSyllable  

a in spacecraft from round else that Corpus space, large somewhere

flying saucer
ˌflying ˈsaucer noun [countable]
a large round spacecraft from somewhere else in space, that some people believe they have seen in the sky ⇨ UFO

flying saucerBrE /ˌflaɪɪŋ ˈsɔːsə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˌflaɪɪŋ ˈsɔːsər/ 🔊 nouna round spacecraft that some people claim to have seen and that some people believe comes from another planet 飞碟  ➡  compare UFO