DOOLITTLE

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• DOOLITTLE (noun)
  The noun DOOLITTLE has 1 sense:

1. United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993)

  Familiarity information: DOOLITTLE used as a noun is very rare.

• DOOLITTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Doolittle; James Harold Doolittle; Jimmy Doolittle

Instance hypernyms:

aeronaut; airman; aviator; flier; flyer (someone who operates an aircraft)

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

 Context examples 

So off we go to Doolittle's Wharf, and there we find a man in an office of wood so small that the man look bigger than the office.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She is the Czarina Catherine, and she sail from Doolittle's Wharf for Varna, and thence on to other parts and up the Danube.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)