Meaning of rocket-launcher | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

Examples

“American troops believe that their secret weapon, a rocket-launcher that costs only 10s. to make, and is never called by any other name than the Bazooka, is going to cause very bad headaches among the crews of Nazi armoured vehicles.”

“I cannot logically understand why we should have a sacred right to own and use this murderous weapon of war but not have a constitutional right to “bear” and use a shoulder-fired grenade-launcher capable of destroying a car, or a shoulder-fired, light anti-tank rocket-launcher capable of destroying a small house.”

“They saw where Russian tanks had left snow-packed paths alongside their roadway while all around the same steady drum beat: exploding tank shells, shrieking rocket-launchers, screaming missiles.”

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