kamikaze

1. A Japanese pilot trained in World War II to make a suicidal crash attack, especially upon a ship.
2. An airplane loaded with explosives to be piloted in a suicide attack.
3. Slang An extremely reckless person who seems to court death.

1. Of or relating to a suicidal air attack: a kamikaze mission.
2. Slang So reckless in behavior or actions as to be suicidal: kamikaze hot rodders.

Origin:

Origin: Japanese, divine wind (from the legendary name of a typhoon that in 1281 saved Japan by destroying the Mongol navy)

Origin: : kami, divine

Origin: + kaze, wind