单词 | kamikaze |
释义 | kamikaze /kah'mi kah"zee/, n. 1. (during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, esp. a warship. 2. an airplane used for this purpose. 3. a person or thing that behaves in a wildly reckless or destructive manner: We were nearly run down by a kamikaze on a motorcycle. adj. 4. of, pertaining to, undertaken by, or characteristic of a kamikaze: a kamikaze pilot; a kamikaze attack. [1940-45; < Japn, equiv. to kami(y) god (earlier *kamui) + kaze wind (earlier *kanzai] |
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