Bazooka Definition

bə-zo͝okə
bazookas
noun
A shoulder-held weapon consisting of a long metal smoothbore tube for firing armor-piercing rockets at short range.
American Heritage
A portable weapon of metal tubing, for aiming and launching armor-piercing rockets.
Webster's New World

A primitive trombone having wide tubes.

Wiktionary

An American shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument.

Wiktionary
By extension, any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Bazooka

Noun

Singular:
bazooka
Plural:
bazookas

Origin of Bazooka

  • After the bazooka , a crude wind instrument made of pipes, invented and named by Bob Burns (1890–1956), American comedian probably from bazoo kazoo, mouth, voice

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Alteration of Spanish basuco, derived from base.

    From Wiktionary

Bazooka Sentence Examples

  • The decision to make novelty items, namely gum, was made and Bazooka bubblegum was launched.

  • To help increase sales, the gum was packaged with trading cards and the wrapper featured a cartoon character, Bazooka Joe.

  • In a later Twitter Tracker segment, a bird approaches with a bazooka and blows up the letters in an explosion worthy of a Schwarzenegger movie, and then finishes off with an innocuous chirp that even cracks up the host.

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