bazookalike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bazooka.
Example Sentences
- "This is scarcely ideal for the battlefield where one would like to be sure that a soldier is out of action. Many years ago the Army withdrew from Europe the old Davy Crockett bazookalike nuclear weapon which had a yield of a few hundredths of a kiloton and would have killed primarily through neutrons; they seem now to have forgotten that experience."
- "I’ve always wanted my own bazooka, but my neighbors might not look upon that too favorably. So instead, I satisfied my craving with a bazookalike contraption capable of launching plastic bottles clear across my backyard."
Etymology
From bazooka + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more bazookalike (comparative)
most bazookalike (superlative)