bazooka
/bəˈzuːkə
/noun
1A short-range tubular rocket launcher used against tanks.We got basic training with rifles, pistols, bazookas, machine guns, hand grenades and hand-to-hand combat....
- Of course, this budget does not include ammunition for heavy-duty guns such as armored vehicles, tanks, bazookas, bombs, grenades and fire bullets that can annihilate entire villages.
- This also made effective such rocket weapons as the bazooka and panzerfaust but it was also used to increase the potency of plastic explosives, and even semi-armour-piercing bombs.
2A kazoo shaped like a trumpet.Among the heavy drums he sat and played the bazooka, played the sweet bazooka....
- James played the bazooka.
Origin
1930s (in sense 2; originally US): apparently from US slang bazoo in the original sense 'kazoo'.