bazooka

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈzuːkə/

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• Rhymes: -uːkə

From an extension of the word bazoo (“mouth, boastful talk”), which ultimately probably stems from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). In the finance sense first used by policymakers during the European debt crisis (2010).

bazooka (plural bazookas)

1. (music) A primitive trombone having wide tubes.
2. (weaponry) 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.
3. (by extension) Any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher.
4. (slang) A woman's breast, especially a big one.
5. (finance slang) A large rescue or stimulus package.
   • 2012 June 21, Matthew O'Brien, “Why the Euro Crisis Will Never End in 1 Chart”, in The Atlantic‎:

     Suppose the EFSF buys some bonds. That will push down yields for awhile.^[sic] But what happens when the money starts to run out? Yields will go back up. A firebreak/firewall/bazooka needs unlimited funds to work.

   • 2022 August 24, Thomas Hale, Cheng Leng, Hudson Lockett, “Investors price in $130bn loss on China developers’ dollar bonds”, in Financial Times‎:

     “I don’t think [policymakers]^[sic] realise it’s not enough,” said a veteran fixed-income investor in Hong Kong. “You need some big bazooka action to improve sentiment as a whole.”

bazooka (third-person singular simple present bazookas, present participle bazookaing, simple past and past participle bazookaed)

1. To shoot with a bazooka.

Alteration of Spanish bazuco, basuco, derived from base. Doublet of basuco.

bazooka (uncountable)

1. (slang) Crack cocaine.

Borrowed from English bazooka.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbaːˈzu.kaː/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧zoo‧ka

bazooka m (plural bazooka's, diminutive bazookaatje n)

1. bazooka (antitank weapon)

Borrowed from English bazooka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑsukɑ/, [ˈbɑ̝s̠ukɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑsukɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ba‧zoo‧ka

bazooka

1. bazooka (antitank weapon)
2. (informal, humorous) Any shoulder-mounted anti-tank weapon.

   Synonyms: sinko, kertasinko, kessi, panssarinyrkki

Borrowed from English bazooka.

• IPA^(key): /ba.zu.ka/

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bazooka m (plural bazookas)

1. bazooka (rocket launcher)

• “bazooka”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English bazooka.

• IPA^(key): /baˈzu.ka/

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• Rhymes: -uka
• Syllabification: ba‧zoo‧ka

bazooka f

1. (weaponry) bazooka (shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon)

• bazooka in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English bazooka.

bazooka f (plural bazooka)

1. (weaponry) bazooka

bazooka c

1. (weaponry) a bazooka

• bazooka in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bazooka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)