BAZOOKA

bazooka

(noun) a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

bazooka (plural bazookas)

(musical instrument) A primitive trombone having wide tubes.

(weapons) A shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed by America during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument.

(by extension) Any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher.

(slang, sexuality) A woman's breast.

Etymology 2

Noun

bazooka (uncountable)

(slang) Crack cocaine.

Source: Wiktionary



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DESIRABLE

(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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