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How to pronounce “torpedo”
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Pronunciation guide for torpedo
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of torpedo with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Turn the Ship Around
Now the torpedoes, here's how they work.
- Definition summary
- (zoology) An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce torpedo
Turn the Ship Around
Now the torpedoes, here's how they work.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “torpedo”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (zoology) An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
- (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon. [from 1805]
- (Northeastern US) A submarine sandwich.
- (archaic, military) A naval mine.
- (obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry; a land torpedo.
- (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
- (rail transport, US) A small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
- A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
- (historical) An automobile with a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable soft top, and having the hood or bonnet line raised to be level with the car's waistline, resulting in a straight beltline from front to back.
- (neuroscience) A focal ovoid swelling on the axons of Purkinje cells, observed in several diseases such as essential tremor and spinocerebellar ataxia.
- (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A woman's shoe with a pointed toe. [1910s]
- (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A large breast; a breast with a large nipple. [from 1960s]
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To strike (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
- (transitive) To sink (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
- (transitive, figurative) To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a powerful attack.
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