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n. A circus performer who is launched from a specially designed cannon.
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The human cannonball act is a performance in which a person (the "cannonball") is ejected from a specially designed "cannon". The human cannonball lands on a horizontal net or inflated bag, the placement of which is determined by classical mechanics. Outdoor performances may also aim at a body of water.
Human Cannonball is an album by alternative rock group School of Fish, released in 1993 by Capitol Records.
The Human Cannonball is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
- Redirect List of minor DC Comics characters#Human Cannonball
Human cannonball is a performance act in which a person (the "cannonball") is ejected from a specially designed "cannon".
Human Cannonball may also refer to:
- Human Cannonball (album), a 1993 album by the alternative rock group, School of Fish
- Human Cannonball (DC Comics), a comic book character owned by DC Comics
- Human Cannonball (Marvel Comics), a comic book character owned by Marvel Comics
Usage examples of "human cannonball".
If he was barreling down the runway at two hundred miles an hour, completing the takeoff run, and the board started lighting up red, should he (a) abort the takeoff (and try to wrestle with the monster, which was gorged with jet fuel, out in the sand beyond the end of the runway) or (b) eject (and hope that the goddamned human cannonball trick works at zero altitude and he doesn't shatter an elbow or a kneecap on the way out) or (c) continue the takeoff and deal with the problem aloft (knowing full well that the ship may be on fire and therefore seconds away from exploding)?
So there I was, and she came bulleting at me, arms all folded in like a human cannonball, and smacked into me hard enough to take my breath away.
I followed it like Dum-Dum the Human Cannonball, at a slight angle, and God was kind: I landed on nothing but rug.
Blind with fury, he was totally unaware that he had bounded up onto the car, that he was across it in two steps, that he was flying through the air and crashing into Barkin with all the impact of a human cannonball.
The window next to the door exploded outward as a human cannonball sailed through it.
Suddenly Lee felt herself airborne, a human cannonball fired into the air.
Fire eaters and jugglers and trapeze artistes, multitudinous chimps and a human cannonball, not to mention three alcoholic clowns with real red noses.
Her small body was propelled through the passageway like a human cannonball.
At the last moment the man snapped in his limbs and became a human cannonball tumbling as it hit the ground.
One split second in which a plan was formed then he sprang, a human cannonball powering through the darkness.
No, not thrown, fired, fired like a living bullet, like the Human Cannonball at the Shrine Circus that came to Derry each May.