sky pilot

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nounSlang.
  1. a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.

Origin of sky pilot

1
First recorded in 1880–85

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How to use sky pilot in a sentence

  • All of us have deep in our hearts love, veneration and respect for the sky-pilot—chaplain, if you would rather call him so.

    Private Peat | Harold R. Peat
  • His gang kills; but when they kill under The sky pilot they do it so cleverly that no trace of the crime remains.

    The Oakdale Affair | Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Always behind him he expected the sudden onslaught of the bearded, blear-eyed followers of The sky pilot.

    The Oakdale Affair | Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • But call him "sky-pilot" and he starts up like Macbeth at the ghost of Banquo, exclaiming "Come in any other form but that!"

    Flowers of Freethought | George W. Foote
  • Let us first notice a great difference between the sea pilot and the sky pilot.

    Flowers of Freethought | George W. Foote

British Dictionary definitions for sky pilot

sky pilot

noun
  1. slang a chaplain in one of the military services

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