Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Impenetrable by bullets.
- adj. Informal Impervious to assault, damage, or failure; guaranteed: a bulletproof method; bulletproof arguments.
- v. To make impenetrable by bullets.
Wiktionary
- adj. of a material Capable of withstanding a direct shot by a bullet fired from a gun.
- adj. idiomatic reliable, infallible, sturdy or error-tolerant.
- adj. Unbreakable, very tough.
- v. To make proof against bullets.
- v. slang to make resistant to failure.
Etymologies
- bullet + -proof (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Athletes arrived at the opening ceremony in bulletproof vans.”
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“The silk could also have applications in bulletproof vests and improved car airbags.”
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“If you sent Peter and Jane there to fly a kite, you'd kit them out in bulletproof vests first.”
“Simultaneously, FBI agents in bulletproof vests and carrying M-16s woke”
“Antibalas - Spanish for "bulletproof" - is a high-energy, highly celebrated Afrobeat orchestra from Brooklyn.”
“A growing number of so-called bulletproof Web host services ...offer spam-friendly merchants access to stable offshore computer servers - most of them in China - where they can park their Web sites, with the promise that they will not be shut down because of spam complaints.”
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“And then, explosive new charges against the maker of bulletproof vests, so-called bulletproof vests, for the Secret Service, the first lady and the president of the United States.”
“The U.S. Marine Corps denies it's recalling bulletproof vests because of defects.”
“Crous said he was at one stage issued with a so-called bulletproof battle jacket and three extra magazines for his R4 rifle.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bulletproof’.
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Here's Your Proof
A list of words ending in -proof. Please add your favorite(s). Mine is foolproof.
*Proof* looks and sounds funny to me.
Included is proof-strain, which, with strainproof, makes a nice ...windproof, soundproof, frostproof, fireproof, childproof, rainproof, airproof, waterproof, skidproof, weatherproof, shellproof, shockproof and 125 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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