Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hollow-point small-arms bullet designed to expand upon impact, inflicting a gaping wound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bullet , with a soft nose, thatexpands uponimpact to cause agaping wound . - noun An
ignorant person, anidiot
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Does ‘any means necessary’ include dumdum bullets?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Remarkable Window into Amnesty International’s Worldview 2010
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Does ‘any means necessary’ include dumdum bullets?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Remarkable Window into Amnesty International’s Worldview 2010
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And even though some of what he thought about vampires had proved to be hopelessly wrong, a dumdum bullet to the face would stop anything for a while.
30 Days Of Night TIM LIBBON 2010
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But Stacie, who has an MBA from Harvard, isn't in a hurry to show them homes of any price range, proving yet again that she's no dumdum.
'Housewives' nightlife Ep. 6: News, househunting and male models at the W 2010
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And you dumdum transplants who are complaining that you are getting passed on the right when you are in the middle lane-MOVE OVER.
Move over Jersey drivers, Manahan takes on the left-lane lingerers 2009
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This way, when he shows up to work one morning and pumps a round into his nagging, ineffectual, petty, whining, butt-sucking, candy-ass boss, that one round will split along the filed grooves and spread open the way a dumdum bullet flowers inside you to blow a bushel load of your stinking guts out through your spine.
Archive 2009-03-01 The Verger 2009
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This way, when he shows up to work one morning and pumps a round into his nagging, ineffectual, petty, whining, butt-sucking, candy-ass boss, that one round will split along the filed grooves and spread open the way a dumdum bullet flowers inside you to blow a bushel load of your stinking guts out through your spine.
blogging in English The Verger 2009
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Walters "loved the line" in a Newsweek profile that described the questions she asked as "some of the toughest in television journalism -- dumdum bullets swaddled in angora."
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Dum Dum Bullets Swaddled in Angora 2008
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Cute dogs: Ford is fine at the start, as a shark, but once he becomes a saintly dumdum he loses his finesse and his subtlety.
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Most departments, whether armed with pistols or revolvers, have already switched to hollow-point dumdum bullets that mushroom on impact, thus causing more injury.
vanishedone commented on the word dumdum
Why is this tagged 'WeirdNet'; was someone thinking of DumDums?
January 31, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word dumdum
Well... that seems likely. Or else maybe he/she was thinking of the sorta-not-really-name-calling name, "You dumdum."
January 31, 2009