shrapnel
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈʃɹæpnəl/
shrapnel (uncountable)
- (historical) An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
- A collective term for shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb or landmine.
- (slang) Loose change.
- Debris.
- The dog did not eat my sandwich. It was in a bag. If he had eaten my sandwich, there'd be shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag.
- German: Schrapnell
- Italian: bomba antiuomo
- Russian: шрапнель
- French: shrapnel
- German: Schrapnell, Granatsplitter
- Italian: schegge, proiettili, scheggia di bomba
- Portuguese: estilhaço
- Russian: шрапне́ль
- Spanish: shrapnel, metralla
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