cab rank

English

Noun

cab rank (plural cab ranks)

1. Synonym of taxi rank
2. (military) A group of aircraft that remain airborne in order to attack targets quickly when requested.
   • 1953, Denis George Richards, Hilary Aidan St. George Saunders, Royal Air Force: The fight is won (page 352)

     Their presence with the army greatly heartened the rank and file, as did the appearance above the battlefield of "cab ranks" of fighters and fighter-bombers.

Related terms

• cab off the rank
• cab-rank rule

Anagrams

• ran back