bazooka

Meanings

1. A primitive trombone having wide tubes.
2. A shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed by America during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument.
3. Any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher.
4. A woman's breast, especially a large one.
5. A large rescue or stimulus package.

1. To shoot with a bazooka.

1. Crack cocaine.

Etymology

From an extension of the word bazoo (“mouth, boastful talk”), which ultimately probably stems from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). In the finance sense first used by policymakers during the European debt crisis (2010).