Meaning

1 senses
  1. In civil aviation, a decorative horizontal band of color applied to both sides of an aircraft's fuselage of as part of its livery.

Origin

From cheat + line, because the first cheatlines aimed to "cheat the eye", making aircraft

From cheat + line, because the first cheatlines aimed to "cheat the eye", making aircraft appear more streamlined.

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Forms

plural: cheatlines
Singularcheatline
Pluralcheatlines

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

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