| 单词 | tankbuster |
| 释义 | > as lemmastankbuster tankbuster n. colloquial a weapon or vehicle, esp. an aircraft, designed to attack and destroy tanks; also figurative; cf. tank-killer n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > a particular species of weapon > anti-tank tankbuster1941 1941 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 1 May 1/2 Some quarters favor using the army's new ‘Jeep’—60-mile-per-hour, quarter-ton reconnaissance car—as a full-fledged ‘tank buster’. 1941 Illustr. London News 29 Nov. 691/1 The Hawker ‘Hurricane’ is..proving its superiority in the battle of the Libyan Desert..as a dive-bomber and ‘tank-buster’. 1942 J. Sweeney in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 384 No sooner does the gong go for the third than Irish walks into..a rip-snorting tank-buster that Big Joe had been saving up for a secret weapon. 1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 311/2 (advt.) Tiny tankbuster. 2002 Guardian 19 Dec. i. 20/7 The Predator was conceived in 1994 as a spy plane. Airforce chiefs then transformed it into a tankbuster. < as lemmas |
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