bazooka

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  1. noun A shoulder-held weapon consisting of a long metal smoothbore tube for firing armor-piercing rockets at short range.

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  • The fourth man carried an odd device—it looked like some sort of bazooka, with what looked like a compressed-air tank slung underneath it. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
  • Fifth, Bailout Ben has dropped trillions into the system to stabilize the Wall Street while Paulson has broken out his bazooka which suggests that as much of 95\% or more of oil's price drop can be attributed to nothing more than the dollar's rise since July. —  R-Squared Energy Blog
  • Of course the biggest collateral damage caused by Paulson's bazooka is the large hole ripped through the already tattered U.S. Constitution. —  Safehaven
  • I can throw those plant pokeballs further than the bazooka was shooting them. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • The soldiers appear to have burst through the gate and fired something like a bazooka or rocketpropelled grenade through his bedroom window. —  Daily Express News Feeds
 

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  1. After the bazooka, a crude wind instrument made of pipes, invented and named by Bob Burns (1896-1956), American comedian, probably from bazoo, kazoo.
 

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