combat pilot

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   airplane pilot who fights in an action between two military forces

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   military

Questions about combat pilot

What does combat pilot mean?

combat pilot means "airplane pilot who fights in an action between two military forces".

Is combat pilot a common word?

combat pilot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.