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pocket battleship
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pocket battleship
n.
Any of several German warships built in the late 1920s and early 1930s that were smaller, less well armed, and less heavily armored than a conventional battleship.
pocket battleship
n
(Military) a small heavily armoured and armed battle cruiser specially built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament, esp any of those built by Germany in the 1930s
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Noun1.pocket battleship - a small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930)
battleship, battlewagon - large and heavily armoured warship
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Pocket battleships such as Deutschland and Admiral Graf Spee were much smaller - about 15,000 tonnes when loaded.
For the record by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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