From the name ofOperation Babylift.

babylift (pluralbabylifts)

1. Theevacuation of foreign children from abroad into a country foradoption.
   • 1978, Elwyn James Anthony, Colette Chiland,Children and their parents in a changing world, page112:

     The second prong of my effort, Plan B, was to try to provide some help for the 2000babylift children we had already brought to America.

   • 1978, Gerald G. Hotchiss,Psychology Today, page30:

     There are ominous implications forbabylift children in the story of Leigh Marsh, an adopted Korean child who lost eight years in the Connecticut public school system.

   • 1995,Newsweek - Volume 125, page802:

     Over the next few weeks, on the Pan Am 747s and on military flights that followed, about 1,400 orphans rode thebabylift to America.

   • 2001, Danny Schechter,News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics, page108:

     They believe there was collusion between Lockheed and its friends in the Air Force to use thebabylift to give the C-5 publicity.

   • 2010, Cheri Register,Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted From Other Countries,→ISBN:

     Holt speeded up its efforts when the end of the war became imminent but kept a distance from thebabylift by refusing an offer to use military transport planes.

Frombaby(“baby”) +‎lift(“lift”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɛjbiˌlift/

babylift c (singular definitebabyliften,plural indefinitebabylifter)

1. A linedbox orcart withhandles on the side that is used to carrybabies;carrycot.
   • 2014, Per Bloch,Ti, tyve, tredive, C&K Forlag:

     Babyliften er grå og svajer i luften som den sejler ned igennem opgangen.

     Thecarrycot is grey and sways in the air as it sails down through the stairwell.

baby +‎Englishlift

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɛɪbʏˌlɪft/,/ˈbɛɪbʏlɪft/

babylift c

1. carrycot.
   • 2013, Klas Östergen,Gangsters, Albert Bonniers Förlag:

     Han satte sig i bilen igen och stängde dörren försiktigt för att inte väcka barnet som utmattat somnat i enbabylift.

     He got in the car again and cautiously shut the door, so to not wake the baby which exhaustedly had fallen asleep in acarrycot.