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A fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II
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kamikaze
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is a manga series written and illustrated by Satoshi Shiki , published in Kodansha 's Afternoon magazine from 1998 to 2003. A 2-CD audio drama based on the manga was released on December 26, 2003. An English translation of all seven volumes of the manga ...
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n. a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash
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n. 1 An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft. 2 One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft. 3 (cx colloquial English) One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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"suicide flier," 1945, Japanese, literally "divine wind," from kami "god, providence, divine" (see kami ) + kaze "wind." Originally the name given in folklore to a typhoon which saved Japan from Mongol invasion by wrecking Kublai Khan's fleet (August 1281). ...
Usage examples of kamikaze.
As we shot through the lights on the dual carriageway at Cheadle, he made a kamikaze run across three lanes of traffic to hit the motorway intersection.
He does a kamikaze linebacker blitz straight through the skaters, barrels them down like bowling pins, catches Ho, and keeps running downfield towards the moving flatbed of the Bronco.
She knew that the large rammer fleet would soon be completed: extraordinarily armored kamikaze battleships to be crewed by Soldier compies.
As they watched enthralled, the angry buzzing Saturnian ships zeroed in on the fat egg-shaped ship and flung themselves at it with the abandon of suicidal flies doing a kamikaze act against a windowpane.
There was a shore-to-shore amphibious landing on Ormoc Bay, commanded by Admiral Struble, on 7 December, in which destroyers Mohan and Ward were sunk by kamikazes.
There was a passenger shuttle whose cylindrical lifesystem had been unseamed by carefully placed bomblets, a kamikaze act of sabotage that had killed the fleeing government of Baghdad, Enceladus.
For a Navy Yard captain swamped by destroyers, carriers, even battleships crowding in with kamikaze damage, an old crippled submarine was a low-priority customer.
The Pwalm sensor operators had detected not only his Kamikaze but his presence on board, and they had projected a gynecomorphous bomb.
Australian Navies in the Luzon campaign, mostly due to kamikaze attack, were more than 2000.
Counting all planes in these mass attacks, together with individual kamikaze attacks not included in the table, over 3000 sacrificial sorties were launched against American naval forces in the Okinawan campaign.
But for them it was a kamikaze exercise---after releasing their granules, nearly all the granulocytes perished.
Out of the fourteen we've already got, two had consented to kamikaze if they were cornered up at Zanthus.
Even if Kingsley didn’t cheat his way past the inevitable security checks and had to kamikaze in the spaceport, the damage would have been considerable, destroying the counter-rotating sphere, any ships docked, and possibly dislodging the asteroid from its orbit.
Murakuma had formed her capital ships into concentric protective screens around the fragile carriers, then dispatched her fighters to engage the kamikazes at extreme range.
The Ophiuchi combat space patrol swarmed over the kamikaze small craft, piloted by the finest dogfighters in space, and the Terran and Orion pilots sent a tsunami of FRAMs into the superdreadnoughts.