Torpedo

Quick meaning: Torpedo is a noun meaning (zoology) An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.

Meaning

(zoology) An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.

More Meanings

1. (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel quickly underwater and is used as a weapon.
2. (Northeastern US) Synonym of submarine sandwich.
3. (rail transport, US) A small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
4. A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
5. (archaic, military) A naval mine.
6. (obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry.
7. (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.

Example Sentences

The man has been changed into an artificial monster by the station in which he is born, and the consequent homage that benumbed his faculties like the torpedo's touch […].

Faire Queene, forbeare to angle for the fiſh, / Which being caught, ſtrikes him that takes it dead, / I meane that vile Torpedo, Gaueſton, / That now I hope flotes on the Iriſh Seas

"A childhood Misadventure with a Torpedo," Dixon, with a brief move of his head toward Mason, confides, "— thus his Sensitivity at all References to the,"— whispering,— "electrickal!"

I stood rigid, spellbound, watching the white wake of the torpedo. It struck us on the starboard side almost amidships. The vessel rocked as though the sea beneath it had been uptorn by a mighty volcano.

Word Forms

• torpedoes
• torpedos
• torpedoing
• torpedoed

Synonyms for torpedo

Depending on context, synonyms include torp, fish, detonator, wedge, gun, submarine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crampfish, numbfish, grinder, hoagie, zep, wedge.

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