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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Slang A stupid person; a dolt.

Wiktionary

  1. n. alternative spelling of dumdum.

Etymologies

  1. Reduplication and alteration of dumb. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Ballistics experts say the so-called dum-dum bullets also are lighter in weight and can be fired with greater accuracy over varying distances.”

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  • “Ballistics experts say the so-called "dum-dum" bullets also are lighter in weight and can be fired with greater accuracy over varying distances.”

    chron.com Chronicle

  • “A doctor treating victims told The Associated Press the gunman used illegal "dum-dum"-style bullets designed to disintegrate inside the body and cause maximum internal damage.”

    USA Today: Norway rampage culprit calm, held in isolation

  • “A doctor treating victims told The Associated Press that the gunman used illegal "dum-dum"-style bullets bullets designed to disintegrate inside the body and cause maximum internal damage.”

    The Huffington Post: Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Mass Killer, Pleads Not Guilty

  • “Tudor was notching his steel-jacketed bullets, or cutting them blunt, so that they would spread on striking -- in short, he was making them into the vicious dum-dum prohibited in modern warfare.”

    Chapter 27

  • “In Kenya, an enraged Mau-Mau had speared her mama, Mimi, with a tse-tse fly; and in the jungles of Pago Pago, a dum-dum shell to the back of the head had sent her papa, Pepe, to the promised land.”

    The Huffington Post: David Macaray: Double Agents

  • “In the northland such commands are equal to Jehovah's in the matter of potency; the dum-dum as rapid and effective as the thunderbolt.”

    A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA

  • “Even if there are precious exceptions, the overwhelming number of big-money, industry-sustaining books are incontrovertibly dum-dum things.”

    Boycott Books!

  • “A dum-dum mistake by 2012 organisers Dum-dum bullets, we read, could be used to deter potential terrorists at the 2012 Olympics.”

    The Guardian: Buoyant rugby union gives the English a reason not to emigrate

  • “Americans Goo and Sandstrom don't describe my male characters as demon lovers - they refer to them as "dum-dum" (singularly) and "one jerk after another" (collectively).”

    The Huffington Post: Maureen Gibbon: A Tale of Rape to Love or Hate

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