jetter

A self-confident person full of braggadocio.

So helpe me God , so were ye better ; What shulde a begger be a jetter?

A late fifteenth-century reference to 'the jetters of the Inns of Court' anticipates the exclusive association of jetting with young men, as the word jet appears frequently in late sixteenth-century satires of city gallants who are described as 'jetters.'

Any of a number of devices that eject a pressurized stream of liquid.

Many machines incorporate a mechanical or ultrasonic ' fobber ' or a jetter, using either beer or water , which induces beer in the filled bottle to rise as foam or fob and displace air in the space above the beer.

The medium-volume jetter has separate high pressure hoses for large and small diameter drains.

A vehicle or engine that works by jet propulsion.

The jetter was upon us and it was a piston-powered engine.

Five hundred and forty-two men moved by jetter to Colorado Springs;thence, by helicopter, to the canyon hideaway.

An animal, such as a squid or jellyfish, that moves by jet propulsion. (Often used to distinguish it from similar animals with a different method of locomotion.)

The most notable jetters are the cephalopod mollusks, but scallops, salps, dragonfly nymphs, jellyfish, frogfish, and others use jetting as their primary locomotory mode (Trueman, 1980).

In fact, almost none of the jetters were observed swimming with their tentacles extended.

One who drives or rides in a jet-propelled vehicle.

The executive jetter's time-advantage over scheduled flights has, indeed, increased.

A final quirky note sounds about jetting east or west when we cross the International Dateline. Here , in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, jetters gain or lose a whole day.

A surname.