rotorhead
n.— «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.”» —“Elite, mobile fire crew might soon be permanent here” by Gregory Alan Gross San Diego Union-Tribune (California) Nov. 16, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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