Catchword: rotorhead

Filed Under: English, United States, Firefighting, Jargon

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: Helitack crews consider themselves an elite corps within the fire service, which prompts a certain amount of ribbing from their fellow firefighters—most of it good-natured, some of it not. In conversations and on Internet message boards, they hear themselves referred to as “rotorheads” and “heli-donnas.”

Article or Document Title:
“Elite, mobile fire crew might soon be permanent here” (URL)

Author:
Gregory Alan Gross

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
San Diego Union-Tribune

Publishing Location:
California

Date of Publication:
Nov. 16, 2004

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