Meaning

4 senses
  1. (colloquial)An aircraft used to destroy dams by dropping bombs on them.

  2. (colloquial)The pilot of this kind of aircraft.

  3. (colloquial)The type of bomb dropped by this kind of aircraft.

    dambuster bombs

  4. (broadly)An aircraft or pilot involved in Operation Chastise in 1943.

Origin

From dam + buster.

From dam + buster.

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Forms

plural: dambusters
Singulardambuster
Pluraldambusters

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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