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All buckshot synonyms

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noun buckshot

  • armament — Armament is used to refer to weapons and bombs carried by an aircraft or other military vehicle.
  • bomb — A bomb is a device which explodes and damages or destroys a large area.
  • bullet — A bullet is a small piece of metal with a pointed or rounded end, which is fired out of a gun.
  • cartridge — A cartridge is a metal or cardboard tube containing a bullet and an explosive substance. Cartridges are used in guns.
  • rocket — Maurice [maw-rees;; French moh-rees] /mɔˈris;; French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), ("Rocket") 1921–2000, Canadian hockey player.
  • materiel — the aggregate of things used or needed in any business, undertaking, or operation (distinguished from personnel).
  • missile — an object or weapon for throwing, hurling, or shooting, as a stone, bullet, or arrow.
  • chemical — Chemical means involving or resulting from a reaction between two or more substances, or relating to the substances that something consists of.
  • munition — Usually, munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
  • shrapnel — Military. a hollow projectile containing bullets or the like and a bursting charge, designed to explode before reaching the target, and to set free a shower of missiles. such projectiles collectively.
  • torpedo — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
  • gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • ammo — Ammo is ammunition for guns and other weapons.
  • napalm — a highly incendiary jellylike substance used in fire bombs, flamethrowers, etc.
  • lead — to cover, line, weight, treat, or impregnate with lead or one of its compounds.
  • throw — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • shell — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
  • shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • fuse — Electricity. a protective device, used in an electric circuit, containing a conductor that melts under heat produced by an excess current, thereby opening the circuit. Compare circuit breaker.
  • grenade — a small shell containing an explosive and thrown by hand or fired from a rifle or launching device.
  • charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
  • ball — A ball is a round object that is used in games such as tennis, baseball, football, basketball, and cricket.
  • powder — British Dialect. a sudden, frantic, or impulsive rush.
  • round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • confetti — Confetti is small pieces of coloured paper that people throw over the bride and bridegroom at a wedding.
  • cannonball — A cannonball is a heavy metal ball that is fired from a cannon.
  • lob — Tennis. to hit (a ball) in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court.
  • projectile — an object fired from a gun with an explosive propelling charge, such as a bullet, shell, rocket, or grenade.
  • dart — If a person or animal darts somewhere, they move there suddenly and quickly.
  • pellet — a small, rounded or spherical body, as of food or medicine.
  • slug — a hard blow or hit, especially with a fist or baseball bat.
  • iron rations — WW1
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