Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hand-grenade

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.64 in modern English

Syllables: hand--grenade
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of hand grenade.

Example Sentences

"The bullet-proof shutters, the stacks of hand-grenades, and the Gatling guns of the Sub-Treasury are tacit admissions of the fact and of the quality of the mercy expected."
"‘A hand-grenade. One of those potato-mashers. It just blew the whole side of my foot off.’"
"I went back in and threw a hand-grenade under the bed and then I brassed up the house. They were dead, of course."
"But what could Croatian chimney-sweeper Marko have been thinking by using a hand-grenade as a weight for his broom and then turning on his welding apparatus in the cleaning process?"

Inflected Forms

hand-grenades (plural)

Questions

What does hand-grenade mean?: Alternative form of hand grenade.

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