Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A destroyer.
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Examples
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I can't help growling, "Sounds like he thinks we're a de-stroyer squadron off to shoot up a Sangaree raidstation."
Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985
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"But you came in haste, wearing trail de - stroyer-" He sniffed heavily.
Breed to Come Norton, Andre 1972
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There was a pause; a voice cried to some friend, "It's Podgie, adrift on the high seas in charge of a whole dee-stroyer!"
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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US President Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on the USS Tuscaloosa to inspect bases acquired from Great Britain under D.stroyer-for-Bases agreement
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