Definitions
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- adjective (of a bullet) made of soft material that expands on impact
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Examples
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One IS jumpy when soft-nosed bullets putt-putt around him.
CHAPTER XLVII 2010
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In his hand were a dozen little .22 long, soft-nosed, smokeless cartridges.
CHAPTER XLII 2010
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Also, he saw that the revolver did not wabble, nor the hand shake, and he was thoroughly conversant with the size of hole the soft-nosed bullets could make.
To Kill a Man 2010
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Port Adams is a salt-water village on Malaita, and Malaita is the most savage island in the Solomons -- so savage that no traders or planters have yet gained a foothold on it; while, from the time of the earliest bêche-de-mer fishers and sandalwood traders down to the latest labor recruiters equipped with automatic rifles and gasolene engines, scores of white adventurers have been passed out by tomahawks and soft-nosed Snider bullets.
MAUKI 2010
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Bliar got elected three times on a soft-nosed platform that Dacre definitely disapproved of.
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He was a dead shot, even from horseback, and he loaded his own soft-nosed X-cut bullets with enough grains of powder to knock down a barn door.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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It was a soft-nosed .30-06, its brass case a dull gold in the twilight.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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That was when she squeezed the trigger, driving a soft-nosed .357 round through one side of his head and out the other.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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It was a soft-nosed .30-06, its brass case a dull gold in the twilight.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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That was when she squeezed the trigger, driving a soft-nosed .357 round through one side of his head and out the other.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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