Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A German armored vehicle, such as a tank, especially of the type used during World War II.
- adjective Of or equipped with armored vehicles.
- adjective Of or relating to an armored division.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A German tank of the kind used in World War II.
- adjective Equipped with armored vehicles; armored.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or involving armored military vehicles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tank , especially a German one of World War II. - noun attributive, sometimes capitalized Of or relating to the armoured units employed by the German forces in World War II.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an armored vehicle or tank
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was to be several more weeks before the rest of the 6th "Foot Division" — with a touch of bitter gallows humor, the men had so dubbed their panzer division on account of its total lack of tanks — received travel orders to move west.
Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992
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But she misspelled "panzer" and did not make it past the second round.
Dose.ca Music briefs Florence Loyie 2010
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Three German panzer divisions have just crossed the Austrian border into Hungary and will soon be in Budapest along with 240 Gestapo agents, Ujszaszi told the Americans.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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But it is true that as inspector of the panzer troops he had no field command.
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Lokie commands the ground-tank half of the Mogera, and he is one tough panzer leader.
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Three German panzer divisions have just crossed the Austrian border into Hungary and will soon be in Budapest along with 240 Gestapo agents, Ujszaszi told the Americans.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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But this time, not with armies in Super-Kursk panzer battles -- and certainly, thanks to massive retaliation, not with nukes.
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But this time, not with armies in Super-Kursk panzer battles -- and certainly, thanks to massive retaliation, not with nukes.
Michael Vlahos: James Bond, We Hardly Knew Ye Michael Vlahos 2010
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Above all, infantry divisions, especially in the Army Group South area of operations, were lacking to screen the flanks of the attack groups, therefore, this mission had to be taken over by panzer divisions, which were then missing from the attack in the main direction.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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By June 1940, when panzer divisions were advancing on Paris, about 10,000 tons of war supplies were being shipped monthly from Haiphong to Kunming, and a backlog of 125,000 tons were piled up in the port's warehouses.
'Valley of Death' 2010
chained_bear commented on the word panzer
Usages from OED:
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 5 You were in danger of breaking your leg by falling over a complete panzer division of dachshunds moving from bar to shove ha'penny table on a broad front.
1962 S. PLATH Daddy in Coll. Poems (1981) 224, I have always been scared of you, with your Luftwaffe..your Aryan eye, bright blue Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You.
I have to admit, I never thought of using this word in the sense of "lots of dachshunds."
November 29, 2007
yarb commented on the word panzer
I've heard "panzer division" used figuratively for an extremely big or dangerous obstacle by people of my parents' generation, but no, daschunds generally aren't that are they.
November 29, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word panzer
That's interesting, yarb. Though people of my parents' generation do use WWII-era expressions sometimes, I'd never thought or heard of "panzer division" being used colloquially. Thanks for enlightening me.
November 29, 2007
bilby commented on the word panzer
It was a slightly critical nickname for Cardinal Ratzinger prior to him becoming Pope Bennedict the However-Manyth. As he was often tasked by Pope John Paul II to carve out an approach on difficult issues he was dubbed 'Cardinal Panzer', and surely only because he was German.
November 29, 2007
dontcry commented on the word panzer
The mental image I get when thinking of a panzer division of daschunds just cracks me up! That's definitely going to be one of the "happy places" I go to when I need to re-focus. Thanks c_b!
June 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word panzer
I'm glad. :)
(psst... I think it's spelled dachshunds)
June 6, 2008
dontcry commented on the word panzer
Oh...YOU were talking about those little wiener dogs... THAT'S funny too! ;-)
June 7, 2008
brookdale_chick commented on the word panzer
Isn't a panzer a tank...
a term commonly used in WW2.....
You know...
Panzer division!
July 22, 2008
dontcry commented on the word panzer
Tanks?...WW2... What? Auntie Em? ;-)
July 22, 2008