sky marshal

1. 1.

   a person trained by the government in hijacking and terrorist tactics who (for security reasons) is a passenger aboard an airline flight

   Synonymsair marshal

   Broadermarshal

   terrorism

Questions about sky marshal

What does sky marshal mean?

sky marshal means "a person trained by the government in hijacking and terrorist tactics who (for security reasons) is a passenger aboard an airline flight".

What is another word for sky marshal?

Close synonyms include air marshal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sky marshal a common word?

sky marshal 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.