Meaning of Pearl Harbor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A placename
2. A deep water harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, United States in the Pacific.
3. A sneak attack, often using underhanded measures.
4. A naval base in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, United States: a US Navy base
5. A seminal dramatic event that unites a community and arouses it into action against an enemy.
6. Alternative form of Pearl Harbour.
   alt-of, alternative
7. The attack on Pearl Harbor.
   historical, metonymically

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Examples

“Bluto: What? Over? Did you say⟳ "over"? Nothing is over until we decide⟳ it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! Otter: [to Boon] Germans? Boon: Forget⟳ it, he's rolling.”

“Pearl Harbor happened in 1941 and was the direct⟳ cause of the United States' entry into World War II.”

““Casablanca” was completed in 1942, but it’s set⟳ in December, 1941, the time of Pearl Harbor.”

“Most Americans wanted no more Pearl Harbors, but they now expected Germany to attempt⟳ one.”

“For all practical purposes, the United States is undergoing an electronic Pearl Harbor, and the target⟳ is one of the most crucial segments of our way of life: Information.”

“Still, instead of thinking in terms of the industry's repeated warnings of a "digital Pearl Harbor," McPherson said, "I think⟳ cyberwarfare will be far more subtle," in that "certain parts of the system won't work⟳, or it will be that we can't trust⟳ information we're looking at."”

“We certainly don’t want⟳ a GPS Pearl Harbor, but probably it’s gonna take⟳ a GPS Mogadishu to get⟳ people’s attention.”

“IDF says fighting is ongoing in south, saying it ‘could be a 9/11 and a Pearl Harbour wrapped into one’ as Supernova festival-goers describe⟳ attack[.]”

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