bazooka
Meanings
Plural: bazookas
Noun
- a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon
- A primitive trombone having wide tubes.
- A shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed by America during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument.
- Any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher.
- A woman's breast, especially a large one.
- A large rescue or stimulus package.
- Crack cocaine.
Verb
- To shoot with a bazooka.
Origin / Etymology
From an extension of the word bazoo (“mouth, boastful talk”), which ultimately probably stems from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). In the finance sense first used by policymakers during the European debt crisis (2010).
Scrabble Score: 22
bazooka is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordbazooka is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bazooka is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 23
bazooka is a valid Words With Friends word