torpedo /tör-pēˈdō/

1. A self-propelled submarine weapon (usu cigar-shaped), carrying a charge that explodes on impact, launched from aircraft, ships or submarines
2. A bomb, cartridge, case of explosives, or detonator of various kinds, used in warfare, in boring, as a fog signal, firework, etc (chiefly N American)
3. A member of the genus Torpedo of cartilaginous fishes, related to the skates and rays, with organs on the head that give an electric shock, giving name to the family Torpedinidae /-pə-dinˈi-dē/

1. To attack, strike, destroy, by torpedo
2. To wreck (eg a plan)

torpēˈdinous adjective

Numbing

torpēˈdoer noun

torpēˈdoist noun

torpedo boat noun

A small swift warship discharging torpedoes

torpeˈdo-boat destroyer noun

A swifter, more powerful, type of torpedo boat orig used to destroy ordinary torpedo boats

torpedo boom noun

A spar for carrying a torpedo, projecting from a boat or anchored in a channel

torpedo net noun

A steel net hung round a ship to intercept torpedoes

torpedo tube noun

A tube from which torpedoes are discharged

• fast bowlers
• fast bowling
• fast-breeder reactor
• fast-breeder reactors
• fast by
• fast-day
• fast-days
• fasted
• fasten
• fastened
• Fasten-e'en
• fastener
• fasteners
• fastening
• fastenings
• fasten on
• fastens
• Fastens
• Fastens-eve
• Fastens Tuesday
• faster
• Fastern's-e'en
• fasters
• fastest
• Fastext