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spike-bozzle, v. slang (orig. Mil.). Now rare.|spaɪkˈbɒz(ə)l|
Also spike-boozle.
[f. spike v.1 2: the second element is obscure (but see quot. 1962).]
To render (an enemy plane, etc.) unserviceable; to destroy; to upset. Also transf.
1915H. Rosher In R. Naval Air Service (1916) 123 Last night ‘old man Zepp’ came over here... Two machines went up to spike-bozzle him, but..never even saw him. 1923Blackw. Mag. July 5/1 Piffers used to wear them..until the clothing department spike-bozzled them. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §759/10 Spike bozzle, to chase an enemy plane. 1962W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 110/2 Spike bozzle, render ineffective; sabotage, blow up or otherwise destroy a ship or upset a plan. A merging of spike, a gun and bam-boozle, cheat, mystify, bemuse. |