upper deck
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upper deck (plural upper decks)
(nautical) the topmost full-length deck of a ship
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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
I leapt into my boots, trousers and jacket, tumbled all my gear, lying ready laid out, into my bag, donned helmet and goggles, seized charts and rushed to the upper deck.... the sea was calm under a heaving swell. Engadine towered above my cockle-shell.
'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.
Clemente's game winner yesterday puts the upper deck in center field within reach for sluggers in the league who hit the ball for more distance than the great Pirate Veteran. Clemente' shot off Joe Hoerner rattled off the backdrop just below Philadelphia Phil.
747-100 Pan Am was the first airline to operate the 747. The 747-100 pictured shows the original size of the upper deck and window layout.
According to Sub-Lieutenant Gordon Steele : "Wegener ran to a cabin on the upper deck -- I later found out it was Manning's bathroom.