bulletproof

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  1. adjective Impenetrable by bullets.
  2. adjective Informal Impervious to assault, damage, or failure; guaranteed: a bulletproof method; bulletproof arguments.
  3. transitive verb To make impenetrable by bullets.

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  • Also bulletproof were the windows, through which they watched Ham voiced the obvious. —  048 - The Derrick Devil
  • Here in the United States, where the Wild West is a more common source of metaphors than is the graceful age of sail, we use the term bulletproof ' to mean roughly the same thing. —  The Word Detective
  • Although all of Collins 'insights aren't bulletproof, the part about the most successful leaders who have ultimate faith in prevailing but also build a culture of confronting harsh reality rings so true. —  Traffick
  • There currently are NO dualbanders on the market with a front end that is worth a crap - if ICOM could make one that was bulletproof, they'd get buyers in droves. —  eHam.net News
  • You will never get a migration system that is "one-click", nor one that is "bulletproof" for the simple reason that both are too complex to perform globally. —  Planet Atheism
 

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