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Anti-tank rocket launcher
Answer for the clue "Anti-tank rocket launcher ", 7 letters:
bazooka
Alternative clues for the word bazooka
Word definitions for bazooka in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an anti-tank weapon
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 a primitive trombone having wide tubes. 2 an American shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument. 3 by extension, any shoulder-fired ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A commando unit, wearing black jerseys, gloves and skull-caps, armed with bazookas, marched past. ▪ He raised his bazooka and took his stance. ▪ I threw my gun away, and pulled a bazooka out of the air. ▪ It does matter that ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"metal tube rocket launcher," 1942, from name of a junkyard musical instrument used (c.1935) as a prop by U.S. comedian Bob Burns (1896-1956); extension of bazoo , slang for "mouth" or "boastful talk" (1877), probably from Dutch bazuin "trumpet."
Usage examples of bazooka.
I want to help him out by ramming as many bazooka rockets as I can into the Horse.
The bottoms of Federation ships were built with reinforced armor that no Zak bazooka or rifle had ever managed to pierce.
Both sections were practically devoid of armor, and two blasts from his bazooka could put the ship out of action.
Sha knew it was a useless gesture, but he fired his last bazooka rocket at it anyway, and the enemy pilot dodged it with ease.
In hot pursuit of some other prey, it was already sighting down the barrel of its bazooka rifle.
He cursed them for trying to make fools out of him and his friends, and then, spotting a flash from a Zak bazooka far off to his right, he put the Gundam into a high-speed swoop toward the Zaks around the ships, careful at the same time to avoid friendly gun and missile fire.
The enemy assumed a defensive posture as Amuro closed in and raised its bazooka as if to fire, but Amuro fired his beam rifle first and scored a direct hit.
Luckily, almost all the Zaks would have already exhausted their supply of bazooka rockets, because without his beam rifle he would have no choice but to use the beam saber in close-quarter combat.
Since the colony port was nearly four hundred meters in diameter, he fired two rockets from his bazooka as cover before entering and then, without waiting for the explosion to clear, plunged inside.
The enemy had brazenly managed to sneak up behind him and was now so close that he could have finished the Gun-dam off with a bazooka blast.
It was low on energy, so he maneuvered the MS to pick up the bazooka left behind by the Zak he had earlier dispatched.
Oscar -- at which point he would reach out and grab any pills, powders, shivs or other evidence he was handed, then sprint like a human bazooka for the nearest exit.
Next Saturday down at the Elmwood Theater they are having the annual Bazooka Bubble Gum Bubble Blowing Contest.
So far, this had not been the best of summers Besides almost drowning, he had just lost the Bazooka Bubble Gum Bubble Blowing Contest for the third year in a row, Monroe was out of town visiting his grandparents for a month, it was hot, and he had nothing to do.
Ward Mclntire, the man from the Bazooka bubble gum company, stood holding a glass bowl filled with gum all wrapped in shiny wax paper, each containing a shiny wax-paper cartoon inside.