bazooka

ba·zoo·ka

 (bə-zo͞o′kə)

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 (1890-1956), American comedian, probably from bazoo, kazoo, mouth, voice.]

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bazooka

(bəˈzuːkə)

n

(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

[C20: named after a pipe instrument invented by Bob Burns (1896–1956), American comedian]

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ba•zoo•ka

(bəˈzu kə)

n., pl. -kas.

a tube-shaped, portable rocket launcher that fires a missile capable of penetrating the armor plate of a tank.

[1940–45, Amer.; so called from its resemblance to a musical instrument so named]

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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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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

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Translations

Bazooka

bazooka

[bəˈzuːkə] N → bazuca f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bazooka

[bəˈzuːkə] n → bazooka m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bazooka

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

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bazooka

[bəˈzuːkə] n → bazooka m inv

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