Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A shoulder-held weapon consisting of a long metal smoothbore tube for firing armor-piercing rockets at short range.
Wiktionary
- n. a primitive trombone having wide tubes
- n. an American shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, used in World War II, shaped similar to the bazooka trombone
- n. by extension, any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher
- n. slang, sexuality breasts of a woman
- n. slang Crack cocaine.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon
Etymologies
- Alteration of Spanish basuco, derived from base. (Wiktionary)
- After the bazooka, a crude wind instrument made of pipes, invented and named by Bob Burns (1896-1956), American comedian, probably from bazoo, kazoo. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What's foiling Mr. Paulson's "bazooka" - in-his-pocket plan for bailing out the two without taxpayer money is the failure of private investors to put up the necessary recapitalization so the government won't have to.”
The Wall Street Journal: Why Fannie and Freddie Will Survive (Alas)
“It has an optional flamboyantly gay guy with a 'bazooka'-like lance in it.”
“The business end of Hanky Panky Paulson’s bazooka is glowing red hot as it continues to fire round after round of high explosive moral hazard contains an up to 85 billion dollar, two-year bridge loan from the Fed to the world’s largest insurer, AIG, to be guaranteed by the US taxpayer via the US Treasury.”
“The ECB didn't pull out the so-called bazooka and didn't announce a European-style quantitative easing or a large bond-buying program.”
The Wall Street Journal: Euro Falls as Hope Fades for Crisis's End
“Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the bazooka one of the crucial "tools of victory" for the Allies in World War II, along with the C-47 transport plane, the Jeep and the atomic bomb.”
The Washington Post: Edward Uhl, 92; helped invent bazooka, headed Fairchild Industries
“My culture says that expressing rage by shooting me in the face with a bazooka is a bad thing, and I'm okay with that standard.”
“A bazooka is a shoulder fired rocket, and another insanely interesting word derivation.”
“One man in each mortar squad carried the shoulder-held rocket launcher known as a bazooka.”
“Among their key targets was the Booysens police station where an RPG 7 rocket launcher also known as a bazooka, was first used in an MK operation in the South African urban areas.”
“Booysens police station where an RPG 7 rocket launcher also known as a bazooka, was first used in an MK operation in the South”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bazooka’.
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
weightlift, orbitale, figure skate, speed skate, synchronizer, equestrian sport, bobsleigh, starting block, diesis, ligne, piste, water ski and 521 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
SEDE - weapons
bazooka, ammunition, anti-aircraft mac..., anti-vehicle mine, automatic machine..., ballistic missile..., biological weapons, booby trap, bunker-busting bomb, chemical weapons, cluster bomb, light battleship and 218 more...
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gun
words for firearms (singular)
gun, chopper, rifle, pistol, shooter, pea shooter, cannon, glock, shotgun, gat, strap, revolver and 27 more...
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words that sound musical but aren't
kettlebells, g-string, eardrum, codaphone, notochord, limoncello, dumbbell, Glamorgan, Saxon, harpoon, bellissimo, viandante and 8 more...
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Favorite Words
symbologist, articulate, sushi, chinchilla, flagrant, cosmic, perforate, alacrity, gooseflesh, xenophobic, bamboozle, squirrel and 90 more...
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good ones
grumble, fumble, bumble, stumble, crumble, mumble, jumble, humble, bramble, scramble, amble, ramble and 191 more...
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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B is for Blue Canary
My B Words
bugbear, bette davis eyes, backstroke, barney, babushka, babycakes, backscratcher, bad news bears, balderdash, ballyhoo, baloney, bamboozle and 150 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
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suunflowerss's Words
bakery, crisp, pollywog, crescent, chrysanthemum, aluminum, turquoise, bazooka, crotch rocket, paisley, vermouth, dildo and 107 more...
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onomatopoetic
words that are (or should be!) onomatopoeia
bazooka, hodgepodge, bonanza, cacophony, cattywampus, dingbat, flummoxed, hoi polloi, brouhaha, upsy daisy, muumuu, didgeridoo and 4 more...
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