jetpackとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

jetpack (三人称単数 現在形 jetpacks, 現在分詞 jetpacking, 過去形および過去分詞形 jetpacked)

1. (intransitive) To travel with a jet pack.

   the first person to jetpack around the world

   • 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1]:

     He shrugs, too, when commandos zipline or jetpack into his line of vision, trading fire across busy intersections.

別の表記

• jetpack, jet-pack

名詞

jet pack (複数形 jet packs)

1. (aviation) A piece of equipment that may be strapped to a person’s back and generate vertical thrust by a downward discharge of jet fluid, thereby rendering the person capable of flight.

使用する際の注意点

• (aviation): In formal use, one most often speaks or writes of using a jet pack; however, in informal use, it is not uncommon to hear of flying or riding a jet pack.

下位語

• (aviation): rocket pack

参考

• (aviation): rocket belt

Further reading

• jet pack on Wikipedia.

動詞

jet-pack (三人称単数 現在形 jet-packs, 現在分詞 jet-packing, 過去形および過去分詞形 jet-packed)

1. Alternative spelling of jetpack
   • 2000, Michael McBain, The Vast, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 164:

     He had “parked” the scout ship in orbit around the system’s outermost planet and jet-packed over to the larger vessel.

   • 2013, Mick Herron, Dead Lions, Soho Crime, →ISBN:

     “Yeah, and I jet-packed to work, before they fired me.”

   • 2014, Jeremiah Liend, The Book of Q, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 110:

     Trump ordered the battle suits away and jet-packed to the floor.

   • 2018, Ronald Morgan, Quest for Continuance: Varuna, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN:

     He jet-packed over to the hole.

   • 2018, Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN:

     In a single afternoon, we had jet-packed over every acre of rain forest, trekked across every beach, and even hiked up the volcano.

   • 2021, S. G. Wilson, “TheME Park”, in Me vs. the Multiverse: Enough About Me, New York, N.Y.: Random House Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 85:

     They raced through the loops and tunnels of a hover go-cart track, jet-packed over a volcano, suction-cup-climbed an office tower, and on and on, in an endless display of reckless fun.