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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A shoulder-held weapon consisting of a long metal smoothbore tube for firing armor-piercing rockets at short range.

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  • noun a primitive trombone having wide tubes
  • noun an American shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, used in World War II, shaped similar to the bazooka trombone
  • noun by extension, any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher
  • noun slang, sexuality breasts of a woman
  • noun slang Crack cocaine.

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  • noun a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After the bazooka, a crude wind instrument made of pipes, invented and named by Bob Burns (1890–1956), American comedian, probably from bazoo, kazoo, mouth, voice.]

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Alteration of Spanish basuco, derived from base.

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