单词 | dam-buster |
释义 | > as lemmasdam-buster 3. Chiefly Military slang. Forming nouns denoting personnel, or a weapon, device, etc., that attacks or destroys the first element, as balloon-buster, dam-buster, fort-buster, scud-buster, ship-buster, etc.See also blockbuster n. 1a, bunker buster n., tankbuster n. at tank n.7 Compounds 2, etc. ΚΠ 1940 Life 2 Sept. 29/1 (heading) German ‘balloon busters’ attack the Dover barrage. 1943 Newsweek 20 Nov. 42/3 The ‘Burma Bridge Busters’, as the 490th is called. 1944 Every Week 13 Mar. 188/3 The largest previous bombs weighed four tons. They are known as ‘block busters’. The new six-ton missiles have been named ‘factory busters’. 1946 Pop. Sci. Apr. 94/2 As much water as Mohne Dam let loose when it was wrecked by RAF ‘dam busters’. 1958 Life 10 Feb. 70 Our main purpose in further experimentation with nuclear bombs is not..to make city-busters more horrible. 1985 Def. & Foreign Affairs May 29/2 The Aerospatiale As-30 air-to-ground laser-guided ‘bunker buster’ missile. 1992 New Republic 27 Apr. 22/1 The (arguable) prowess of the Patriot anti-missile missile as a Scud-buster. 2006 M. Boot War made New viii. 260 The undercarriages of attack aircraft had to be modified to carry these ship-busters. < as lemmas |
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