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baka bomb

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English

Syllables
baka bomb
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a rocket-powered, human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft employed by Japan against Allied ships towards the end of the Pacific War.

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Etymology

From Japanese 馬鹿(ばか) (baka, “stupid; foolish”) + bomb. By surface analysis, baka (“stupid; silly”) + bomb, though it pre-dates the borrowing of baka as an independent term from Japanese (which is chiefly associated with Japanese popular culture), and therefore lacks any of the endearing connotations that are now typically associated with it. Coined within the United States Navy during the Pacific Theater of World War 2, in reference to the fact that the Ohka had been specifically designed to carry out kamikaze attacks, the belief that these attacks were a counterproductive military strategy for Imperial Japan, and the common assumption that kamikaze pilots were mindless zealots.

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Inflected Forms

baka bombs (plural)

Questions

What does baka bomb mean?
The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a rocket-powered, human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft employed by Japan against Allied ships towards the end of the Pacific War.
Where does baka bomb come from?
It is traced to Japanese.

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