What is "dum dum"

n. (context informal firearms English) A soft point or hollow point bullet, designed to expand when it hits its target and therefore cause more serious damage.

Dum Dum ( Bengali দমদম Dômdôm) is a populated municipality now corporation under Barrakpore Commissionaire April 2015 by Smt Mamata Banerjee Chief Minister West Bengal near north Kolkata. It comes under Barrackpore sub-division and North 24 Parganas district of the state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It is one of the main entry points to the city of Kolkata, providing a number of transportation facilities into that city from the northwest, such as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, formerly Dum Dum Airport, which offers domestic and international flights. Dum Dum has developed into a modern commercial centre and also hosts the Ordnance Factory Dumdum (OFDC) and Gun & Shell Factory Cossipore(GSF) of the Ordnance Factories Board, which manufactures armaments and other equipment for the Indian Armed Forces, Navy & Air Force. Dum Dum region is about 10 km from the city centre, defined as the Esplanade, Kolkata. The nearby localities include Nager Bazar, Motijheel, Ghughu Danga, Private Road, Chatakal, Jawpur, Rajbari and Lal Bagan.

Dum Dum is the sixth studio album by the Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika, released in 1991. Srdjan "Žika" Todorović was here replaced by Marko Milivojević (ex Morbidi, U Škripcu), who remained the band's drummer till the end. It is the only EKV album written entirely by Milan Mladenović.

The album reflects the political climate in Yugoslavia at the beginning of the 1990s, and it is generally considered to be the darkest record EKV has made. The album was produced by Theodore Yanni and Đorđe Petrović. The guest stars were Mitar "Suba" Subotić, and Tanja Jovićević ( backing vocals).

Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Dum Dum in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency) are in North 24 Parganas district.

Dum Dum is a city in West Bengal, India.

Dum Dum or Dum Dums may refer to:

• Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency), the corresponding constituency
• Dum Dum (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
• Dum Dum, a locality near Uki, New South Wales
• Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, formerly known as Dum Dum Airport
• Dum-Dum (album), The Vaselines first full-length LP
• Dum Dum (album), an album by Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika
• "Dum Dum" (Brenda Lee song), a 1961 single by Brenda Lee
• Dum Dums (band), a British guitar-pop band that split in August 2001
• Dum Dums (lollipop), a brand of lollipop
• Dum Dum Dugan, a fictional character who appears in publications from Marvel Comics
• Dumdum bullet or Dum-dum, an obsolete design of expanding bullet
• Dum Dum Arsenal, the British India Army arsenal where this design was developed for colonial use
• Touché Turtle and Dum Dum, one of the segments from The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series, produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1962
• Dumdum (musical instrument), a one-string bass from Zimbabwe
• Dum-Dum (rapper), Brazilian rapper and composer, member of Facção Central

Dum Dum (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

"Dum Dum" is a song written by Jackie DeShannon and Sharon Sheeley and performed by Brenda Lee. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 in Australia, and #22 in the UK in 1961. It was featured on her 1961 album, All the Way.

The song was produced by Owen Bradley. The singles B-side, "Eventually", reached #56 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song was ranked #91 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1961.