dumdum

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A product of modern society who has for her motto "Dimuendo contralto dumdum," which means, "She who cooks and runs away will live to cook another day CROW.

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  1. noun A hollow-point small-arms bullet designed to expand upon impact, inflicting a gaping wound.

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  • The bullet must have been a dumdum, because bits of the head contents were carried out as it passed through, and the man fell over, dead Doc Savage was under the secret loophole now. —  026 - The Spook Legion
  • Such bullets are sometimes known as Dum-dum or dumdum bullets, after an early British example produced in at the India. —  ROK Drop
  • A product of modern society who has for her motto "Dimuendo contralto dumdum," which means, "She who cooks and runs away will live to cook another day CROW. —  The Silly Syclopedia
  • It mushroomed out like a dumdum bullet. —  Guy Garrick
  • I'm sure dumdum won't be back as he's a liberal and liberals are generally cowards. ... —  Right Voices
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  1. After Dum Dum, a town of northeast India.
 

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