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bazooka definition

☆ ba·zooka (bə zo̵̅o̅′kə)

noun

a portable weapon of metal tubing, for aiming and launching armor-piercing rockets

Etymology: extension of bazoo: name applied by Bob Burns (1896-1956), U.S. comedian, to a comic musical horn made of two gas pipes and a whiskey funnel

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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