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armor-piercing shot
n. (context military English) An armor-piercing solid metal projectile having no bursting charge, that was in use mainly during World War II, abbreviated AP, or simply, "shot".
Usage examples of "armor-piercing shot".
The turret had taken at least a dozen direct hits, most of them from armor-piercing shot.
That would be all they needed, a hail of armor-piercing shot at extreme range from their own guns.
Natural alloy or synthetics, ceramics or human flesh, it vaporized explosively, literally blowing itself apart with fearsome force, and some of the first salvo's targets' sister pods succumbed to proximity damage as fragments blasted into them like old-fashioned prespace armor-piercing shot.