weapon

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The feed is so pixelated, what if it's a shovel, and not a weapon?

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any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon"

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noun

any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon"

noun

a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for weapon.

noun

any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon"

noun

a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons"

Example sentences

The feed is so pixelated, what if it's a shovel, and not a weapon?

Secret weapon is the perfect phrase to describe Kirsty.

"But for Don, playing wasn't kill the bad guys, get the best weapon upgrade, it was "What happens if I just sit here when this NPC wants me to follow him?

The fact that it's still the primary weapon of insurgents, rebels, and terrorists 60+ years later is testament to that.

It's probably a bad idea to bear arms these days, because saying "Officer, I have a weapon in the trunk of my car" might give him reason to shoot you in self defense5.

I think that's one of the reasons I write fewer essays now. After I wrote this one, I had to go back and armor it by pre-empting anything I could imagine anyone willfully misunderstanding to use as a weapon in comment threads.

I cannot speak to the CIA training but I've received some concealed weapon scenario training mostly developed from lessons learned at penitentiaries.

The guy we really need to find and punish is the one who invented "rigid plastic clamshells".The kind that "conveniently" transforms from product packaging into a razor-sharp weapon while you are trying to open it.

Plane cockpits are all but impenetrable[1] - the only reason that some of the 9/11 hijackers were successful was that the standard protocol for dealing with hijackers assumed that hijackers wanted to take the plane hostage for ransom, not use the plane as a weapon.