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noun
1.
(during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.
2.
an airplane used for this purpose.
3.
a person or thing that behaves in a wildly reckless or destructive manner: We were nearly run down by a kamikaze on a motorcycle.
adjective
4.
of, pertaining to, undertaken by, or characteristic of a kamikaze: a kamikaze pilot; a kamikaze attack.
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Kamikaze
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Origin:
1940–45; < Japanese, equivalent to kami(y) god (earlier *kamui) + kaze wind (earlier *kanzai
1940–45; < Japanese, equivalent to kami(y) god (earlier *kamui) + kaze wind (earlier *kanzai
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Example Sentences
- For objects requiring a bigger kick, a kamikaze spacecraft or a nuclear bomb might do the job.
- Bus routes have been set up and kamikaze motorcycle-taxi riders forced to wear helmets.
- We've seen the crotch kamikaze next to come, the snitch one.
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Word Origin & History
kamikaze
"suicide corps," 1945, Japanese, lit. "divine wind," from kami "god, providence, divine" + kaze "wind." Originally the name given in folklore to a typhoon which saved Japan from Mongol invasion by wrecking Kublai Khan's fleet (August 1281).
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Cultural Dictionary
kamikaze [(kah-muh-kah-zee)]Japanese fighter pilots in World War II, trained to make suicide crashes into Allied ships.
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