Idiom
air rage
Meaning
Aggressive, disruptive behaviour on an aircraft.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The passenger was arrested for air rage.”
“The flight was delayed for hours because a passenger started showing signs of air rage.”
“Strict new regulations aim to curb the rising frequency of air rage, which often endangers both the crew and fellow passengers during long-haul flights.”
Examples
simple
“The passenger was arrested for air rage.”
contextual
“The flight was delayed for hours because a passenger started showing signs of air rage.”
complex
“Strict new regulations aim to curb the rising frequency of air rage, which often endangers both the crew and fellow passengers during long-haul flights.”
Origin
Formed by analogy with the 1980s coinage *road rage*. The term began appearing in the 1990s to describe incidents of disruptive or violent behaviour by passengers aboard aircraft.
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