Mitsubishi

From Japanese 三菱 (Mitsubishi), literally "three rhombi", from the family crest.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɪt.sʊˈbɪ.ʃi/

Mitsubishi (plural Mitsubishis)

1. A car manufactured by the Mitsubishi company (originally of Japan, but now with branches abroad).
   • 2007, Nick Mills, Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle..., →ISBN, page 69:

     “I still marvel today at how those Toyotas and Nissans and Mitsubishis were able to cross the terrain that they did.” Away from the few paved roads in Afghanistan, vehicular travel is tortuous and perilous. The roads often appear to be no road at all.

   • 2013, Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves, →ISBN:

     Of course, it wasn't really a movie theater; […] . He vaguely recalled, with less acuity than a dream, watching an endless video of Saudi Arabian street racing on the big pull-down screen last night. […] He couldn't focus on anything except one hundred white Mitsubishis in a field. “You didn't throw up,” Kavinsky noted, from his perch two seats away. He held Ronan's phone. “Most people throw up after drinking that much.” Ronan didn't say the truth […]

2. A plane manufactured by this company, especially during the Second World War.
   • 2003, A. Robert Hill, Stars of the Southern Cross, →ISBN, page 123:

     Lanphier gazed upward. A few thousand feet above them and about five miles off were faint outlines against a sky of blue. The faint outlines were interpreted to be six Zeros and two other Mitsubishis.

   • 2013, Stuart Slade, The High Frontier, →ISBN, page 77:

     If a plane was heard overhead, every man would kneel. An entire unit would vanish, as if it had never been. An enemy oculd be a meter from such a man and still not see him. So what chance did the Mitsubishis stand?

   • 2015, Jeffrey Cox, Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea, →ISBN:

     At 10:05 am, having circled around, eight of the Mitsubishis were again approaching,this time from the port bow. They were trying to line the cruiser up to provide the maximum target for bombers, which was the opposite of the maximum target for torpedo aircraft.

3. A (single dose of a) particular kind of ecstasy (drug).
   • 2006, Lynn Marie Smith, Rolling Away: My Agony with Ecstasy, →ISBN, page 26:

     “I don't know what kind of roll you guys are looking for, but the Mitsubishis are what's hot right now. Not too speedy, not too mellow, a nice high.

   • 2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock, →ISBN, page 330:

     So how has Rule managed to go from gangsta rap's gun talk and bloody sagas of paranoia and revenge to loved-up ditties about nights rolling on Mitsubishis? Let's be honest, though. The E-influenced lyrics that have emerged […]

   • 2014, Marc Weidenbaum, Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, volume 2, →ISBN:

     It was a very rare E scene, everyone was doing — what were they called? — Mitsubishis, taking these pills called Mitsubishis. Very frenetic. I think it was on Wednesdays. I used to go to that regularly because I just thought he was an amazing DJ."

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɪtsuˈbɪʃi/

Mitsubishi n (proper noun, strong, genitive Mitsubishis)

1. Mitsubishi (company)

Mitsubishi m (strong, genitive Mitsubishis or Mitsubishi, plural Mitsubishis or Mitsubishi)

1. Mitsubishi (car of that company)

Mitsubishi

1. Rōmaji transcription of みつびし