WordNet
n. a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties; originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of `banzai' [syn: banzai attack]
Wikipedia
A banzai charge is the term used by the Allied forces to refer to Japanese human wave attacks mounted by infantry units. This term came from the Japanese cry , shortened to banzai, specifically referring to a tactic used by Japanese soldiers during the Pacific War.
Usage examples of "banzai charge".
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.
He had reached that point of emotional exhaustion when the sudden thunder of shellfire or the unwarned banzai charge has lost its power to pump adrenalin into the blood.