bazooka

ba·zoo·ka  (b-zk)

n.

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

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

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bazooka [bəˈzuːkə]

n

(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]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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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bazooka [bəˈzuːkə] n → bazooka m inv