What is "banzai"

Usage examples of "banzai".

She admired Banzai and the ideals the pilot represented, but that Voice gave her the creeps.

That was the wake-up tube he now held loosely in his mouth: the Banzai Pipeline of soda straws.

Rocky had been one of the dogs to alert to the banzai attack of July 25, 1944, and the pair went on more than fifty patrols during the mop-up that followed, staying out over two weeks again and again.

Light gathered to show the banzai attack we fought so hysterically was no attack at all.

Three very old people sat on the shaded porch where Baedecker had once played pirate or held off wave after wave of Japanese banzai attacks.

The arrival of the worldrenowned headsman was greeted by a roar of acclamation from the huge concourse, the viceregal ladies waving their handkerchiefs in their excitement while the even more excitable foreign delegates cheered vociferously in a medley of cries, hoch, banzai, eljen, zivio, chinchin, polla kronia, hiphip, vive, Allah, amid which the ringing evviva of the delegate of the land of song (a high double F recalling those piercingly lovely notes with which the eunuch Catalani beglamoured our greatgreatgrandmothers) was easily distinguishable.

The arrival of the worldrenowned headsman was greeted by a roar of acclamation from the huge concourse, the viceregal ladies waving their handkerchiefs in their excitement while the even more excitable foreign delegates cheered vociferously in a medley of cries, HOCH, BANZAI, ELJEN, ZIVIO, CHINCHIN, POLLA KRONIA, HIPHIP, VIVE, ALLAH, amid which the ringing EVVIVA of the delegate of the land of song (a high double F recalling those piercingly lovely notes with which the eunuch Catalani beglamoured our greatgreatgrandmothers) was easily distinguishable.

I can't name everything they "sample" in this, their second feature, but a few obvious influences are Blade Runner, the Bible, Alice in Wonderland, Japanese manga and anime, Men in Black, Hong Kong chopsocky flicks, classic sf fiction from authors like Dick, Ellison, and William Gibson, Alien/s, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Greek mythology, Terminator and T2, the Millennium Falcon set from Star Wars, and the old Kung Fu TV show.

Passed down from his father, who inherited it after his father died during the Japanese banzai charge on Attu, America's westernmost island.

Bolan's next offensive action would undoubtedly be little more than a hopeless banzai attack--unless.

Bobby Shaftoe says a prayer to the Almighty and prepares to mount a banzai charge.

I burned one who came toward us in a banzai charge, weapon whirling, pure hate in those black pin-dot eyes.

SEALs got results by working as a team according to a carefully worked-out plan, not by going in with guns blazing in some kind of wild, death-or-glory banzai charge.

Me and about fifty other guys stood up to a banzai charge on Guadalcanal ­.

Me and about fifty other guys stood up to a banzai charge on Guadalcanal two fucking million Japs coming at us hopped to the eyeballs and waving those swords they made out of Maxwell House coffee cans - and I never got a scar, I felt a couple of bullets go right by me, and just before we broke that charge the guy next to me got his guts rearranged courtesy of the Emperor of Japan, but the only times I saw the colour of my own blood over there in the Pacific was when I cut myself shaving.