Adjective : a shuttlecock existence. From Dictionary.com.
The shuttlecock is a cork in which feathers have been inserted. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
Every one promised, as it were, to be a battle-dore if I would be the other, and the shuttlecock was to be our letters, — egad!. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn] Reference
This Olympic shuttlecock is no poppycock. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference
It'll give you an excuse to say "shuttlecock" without feeling silly. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
The "shuttlecock" configuration is for sub-orbital speeds, not orbital speeds. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE.com]
Something like a "shuttlecock" reentry for Space Ship One but for orbital speeds?. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE.com]
The "shuttlecock" configuration is used only (in) the atmosphere; remember Space Ship One only. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE.com]
You cannot use the Space Ship one "shuttlecock" configuration for this slowing down because there is no atmosphere in space. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE.com]
2 Although "shuttlecock" is more of a badminton term. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits] Reference
"shuttlecock" type spaceship one and float back to Earth. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE.com]
"shuttlecock" reentry for Space Ship One but for orbital speeds?. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE.com]
'shuttlecock' rather than the 'fashionable' black burqa which can leave the face visible. From Wordnik.com. [Pak Tea House] Reference
The San Francisco shuttlecock flap began in January. From Wordnik.com. [San Francisco Loses at Badminton,] Reference
Hurr ... my brother wont run and get the shuttlecock!. From Wordnik.com. [yanxious Diary Entry] Reference
They also play shuttlecock, but they have no battledore. From Wordnik.com. [Highroads of Geography] Reference
Up he went like a shuttlecock, but not quite up to the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
She has been thrown to and fro like a shuttlecock a dozen times. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
Our soldiers are shuttled around like some shuttlecock video game, anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Raise a White Flag, End a Dark War.] Reference
Battledore and shuttlecock and hunt-the-slipper have also their attractions. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
Kellen felt as if he were watching a game of shuttlecock — or a fencing match. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
The shuttlecock is served and returned as in tennis and either two or four may play. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
I'm quite content to play battledore and shuttlecock in the hall, and I didn't want a rink, really. '. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
The shuttlecock (or shuttle) has 16 feathers from 2½ to 2¾ in. long, and weighs from 73 to 85 grains. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
It's almost like a shuttlecock it badminton, the way as it flutters back to the Earth at quite a great speed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2004] Reference
"Why, it's all crumpled up, as if you had been playing shuttlecock with it!" exclaimed Mrs. Lorton indignantly. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Never dropping to the earth, it has been maintained as a shuttlecock in spiritual regions by the dynamics of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
I never learned to skip till I was thirty, and at thirty-five my greatest delight was a game of battledore and shuttlecock. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
To slow descent, a specially modified parachute will deploy 25 seconds later, turning the da Vinci into a giant shuttlecock. From Wordnik.com. [Reaching The Final Frontier] Reference
And, at that stage, the spaceship turns into a shuttlecock and that would be the genius of Ben Ritardi, the engineer behind it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2009] Reference
It's then that she experiences some kind of nightmarish shuttlecock flashback and the whole broadcast starts to unravel very quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Carillo's Badminton Rant During Athens Olympics Is EPIC (VIDEO)] Reference
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