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armor-piercing

[ ahr-mer-peer-sing ]

adjective

  1. (of bullets, artillery shells, etc.) designed especially for piercing armor.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of armor-piercing1

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Example Sentences

Evidence of execution-style gunshots with armor-piercing bullets has emerged.

Furthermore, the cannon and armor-piercing bombs of Shturmovik ground-attack aircraft posed a mortal peril for the German tanks.

And nobody needs a 30-round clip of high-velocity, steel-jacketed, armor-piercing ordnance for target shooting.

Equally interesting was the construction of the armor-piercing bullet.

Then an artillery officer said, dreamily, "The armor-piercing shells the railroad guns use have lead caps."

She had rounded the Moscow's stern, raking her as she came, and sending armor-piercing shells through her citadel.

Thus, the proportions of the shrapnel gun will be intermediate between those of the armor-piercing gun and the shell gun.

Hence an armor-piercing gun should have a large chamber and a comparatively small bore of great length.

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