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Definitions of bazooka in various dictionaries:
noun - a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon
A shoulder-held weapon consisting of a long metal smoothbore tube for firing armor-piercing rockets at short range.
noun - a small rocket launcher
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Hoping to create a "boom", comics were added to this brand of bubble gum in 1953 |
The rocket launcher Goddard developed in 1918 was the forerunner of this WWII shoulder-wielded weapon |
One of Goddard's early inventions was developed into this anti-tank rocket gun |
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a short-range tubular rocket launcher used against tanks. |
a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an anti-tank weapon |
a long, tube-shaped gun, fired from the shoulder, that is used to shoot missiles at military vehicles |
A short-range tubular rocket launcher used against tanks. |
A kazoo shaped like a trumpet. |
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Bazooka is the common name for a man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher weapon, widely fielded by the United States Army. Also referred to as the "Stovepipe", the innovative bazooka was among the first generation of rocket-propelled anti-tank weapons used in infantry combat. Featuring a solid-propellant rocket for propulsion, it allowed for high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warheads to be delivered against armored vehicles, machine gun nests, and fortified bunkers at ranges beyond that of a standard thrown grenade or mine. The universally-applied nickname arose from the M1 variant's vague resemblance to the musical instrument called a "bazooka" invented and popularized by 1930s U.S. comedian Bob Burns. * During World War II, German armed forces captured several bazookas in early North Africa and Eastern Front encounters and soon reverse engineered their own version, increasing the warhead diameter to 8.8 cm (among other minor changes) and widely issuing it as the Raketenpanzerbü |