Heavy Bazooka

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A shoulder-held weapon consisting of a long metal smoothbore tube for firing armor-piercing rockets at short range.

[After the bazooka, a crude wind instrument made of pipes, invented and named by Bob Burns (1896-1956), American comedian, probably from bazoo, kazoo.]

bazooka [bəˈzuːkə]

(Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a portable tubular rocket-launcher that fires a projectile capable of piercing armour: used by infantrymen as a short-range antitank weapon

[named after a pipe instrument invented by Bob Burns (1896-1956), American comedian]

kazoo, bazooka - Dutch bazu, "trumpet," gives us the words kazoo and bazooka, the latter originally being a form of kazoo that was a long sounding-horn.

See also related terms for trumpet.

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Noun

bazooka - a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon

launcher, rocket launcher - armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket

Translations

bazooka [bəˈzuːkə] N → bazuca f

bazooka [bəˈzuːkə] n → bazooka m

bazooka

n → Bazooka f, → Panzerfaust f, → Panzerschreck m

bazooka [bəˈzuːkə] n → bazooka m inv

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heavy antitank weapon
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Heavy Armored Ground Ambulance
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