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

Noun

a portable rocket launcher that fires a projectile capable of piercing armour [after a pipe instrument devised by an 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

bazooka [bəˈzuːkə] n → bazooka m

bazooka [bəˈzuːkə] n → Panzerfaust f

bazooka [bəˈzuːkə] n → bazooka m inv