Definition of "turboprop" [turboprop]

• A turbojet engine used to drive an external propeller. (noun)
• An aircraft in which a turboprop is used. Also called propjet. (noun)

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• "Jubba's 1,000-year old four-engine Russian Ilyushin 18 turboprop is something out of science retro-fiction."
• "Mr. Pineau and the four other men on the twin turboprop completed their mission and refueled for a new assignment at an airfield in ChuLai on the coast of South Vietnam."
• "The frequency of Latin American turboprop crashing was more than five times the world-wide rate for all commercial aircraft crashes world-wide, and some 50 times higher than the accident rate for jetliners in the U.S."