bazooka

(bə zo̵̅o̅)

noun

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

Origin: 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

See bazooka in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A shoulder-held weapon consisting of a long metal smoothbore tube for firing armor-piercing rockets at short range.

Origin:

Origin: After the bazooka, a crude wind instrument made of pipes, invented and named by Bob Burns (1896-1956), American comedian

Origin: , probably from bazoo, kazoo

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