Meaning of ghost bullet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bullet that is shot by an unseen assailant or one that cannot be seen or heard when it is shot.
2. A bullet that cannot be found or that is untraceable through ballistic testing.
3. An imaginary bullet.
4. A supernatural bullet that wounds or kills a person, especially one that is shot by a supernatural assailant.
5. A bullet that can hurt a ghost or undead creature.
6. Something nonphysical (such as words, actions, or memory) that causes physical or emotional damage.
   figuratively

Examples

“[…] not see them— ghost-bullets flying.”

“[…] a 'ghost' bullet from a resisting gun strikes an innocent American tourist; a bomb explodes and the faces of four young school-girls smile defiantly at their Israeli jailer.”

“A shot screeched past her head from the west, like a ghost bullet seemingly shot from the large gap of El Capitan itself.”

“I planned to fire what are known as "ghost bullets” —ones that nobody at the intersection would even see or hear .”

“Let us assume that this 'ghost bullet' idea is correct. Let us write an equation which relates the distance the ordinary bullet travels with the direction of the recoil of the gun and the amount of recoil, assuming that a ghost bullet does travel off at some strange angle each time.”

“And the ghost bullet allowed me to introduce new depths of police corruption.”

“In a later account of his attack in Jamaica, Brathwaite claims his assailants shot him with a "ghost bullet,” going so far as to narrate his own death in “I Cristobel Colon.””

“He didn't find anything on the bullet. Not a trace. A ghost bullet.”

“Since nightfall he's bracing himself for the hallucinations he knows are soon to come. Crickets offer their resonant chorus, but they don't drown out the sounds of ghost bullets whistling in the air.”

“we are animals dodging ghost bullets in our dreams”

“How to tell her he'd felt the ghost bullet slam into his heart, and had known Rahul would kill her?”

“But how could she stop a bullet that was no longer flying? How could she stop a ghost bullet?”

“People believe that a beast shoots "ghost bullets" when they ford a stream in Sihch'uan at any time except the winter months .”

“The leaves were used in the removal of ghost bullets " (supernatural objects that were shot into people by ghosts).”

“Pushing Teddy off, ignoring the part of him that mourned the loss—not the time, dumbass, not the time, ghosts were kind of a big fucking deal—he scrambled to his knees and looked at where the ghost had tried to put a ghost bullet in his brain.”

“"Somebody shot the doctor," the big police sergeant said. "It wasn't a ghost bullet; it was lead.”

“It was a ward against ghosts, but he was pretty sure it wasn't going to stop a ghost bullet.”

“He ain't shootin' ghost bullets, neither. Here's his slug.”

“Hardy wondered what happened to you when you were hit with ghost bullets. Did they only kill ghosts, or could they work on the living, too?”

“All we have are ghost bullets —and as you saw with Mild Bill, ghost bullets do just fine against the undead.”

““How could you get hurt?” I asked. “You're not even corporeal.” “That gunslinger has ghost bullets,” Sheyenne said.”

“He spoke of radiation as "ghost bullets.” These bullets were deadly if mishandled.”

“A ghost bullet in the heart, but he didn't hesitate.”

“Even when the physical cause of an illness has been removed (e.g., the infection, the bullet taken out of a wound), the ghost fright of the illness-making-moment remains spiritually petrified in the body as a ghost bullet until our soul can cause our body to molt in such a way as to make that moment well again.”

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