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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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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