Meanings
plural Davy Crocketts
- historicalgovernmentA tactical nuclear smoothbore gun for firing nuclear projectiles.
[…] the leaf blower? Like the Davy Crockett, it is something that should have never been invented.
2016, William Gurstelle, Ready the Cannons!: Build Wiffle Ball Launchers, Beverage Bottle Bazookas, Hydro Swivel Guns, and Other Artisanal Artillery, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN1 more example
More than 2,100 Davy Crocketts were produced. They were withdrawn from West Germany in August 1967, although they remained in the U.S. military inventory until 1971.
2020, Spencer C. Tucker, editor, Weapons and Warfare, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 512
Origin
Named after American folk hero, soldier, and congressman Davy Crockett (1786–1836).
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