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torpedo-boat destroyer

(tôr pē′dō bōt′)

a former warship like a torpedo boat but larger and more heavily armed, originally designed to destroy torpedo boats

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noun

A large, heavily armed torpedo boat used in combat especially against other torpedo boats until the early part of the 20th century.

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