bazooka
A primitive trombone having wide tubesA primitive trombone having wide tubes.
» Edmundo shot a bazooka at Rima’s car.
Edmund schoß mit einer Bazooka auf Rimas Auto.
Meaning
6 sensesA primitive trombone having wide tubes.
A shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed by America during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument.
a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon
(broadly)Any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher.
Bazooka, Panzerfaust, Raketenpanzerbüchse
базу́каbazúka
базукаbazuka
(slang)A woman's breast, especially a large one.
(slang)A large rescue or stimulus package.
(slang, uncountable)Crack cocaine.
Examples
1 sentencesEdmundo shot a bazooka at Rima’s car.
deEdmund schoß mit einer Bazooka auf Rimas Auto. — Waldelfe
Translations
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Origin
From an extension of the word bazoo (“mouth, boastful talk”), which ultimately probably stFrom an extension of the word bazoo (“mouth, boastful talk”), which ultimately probably stems from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). In the finance sense first used by policymakers during the European debt crisis (2010).
Alteration of Spanish bazuco, basuco, derived from base. Doublet of basuco.
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