Meanings
panzerfaust1
plural panzerfausts
- Alternative letter-case form of Panzerfaust.
Panzerfaust2
plural Panzerfausts · alternative panzerfaust
- A light, single-shot anti-tank grenade launcher developed in Germany in the latter stages of the Second World War.
1 more example
Apparently the air raid had caught the Volkssturm soldier in the village as he was transporting a supply of six panzerfausts in a handcart to another unit. Klemment wished he would hand over the panzerfausts to them, because he knew the Americans had tanks, and Klemment's unit had nothing in their arsenal to stop the metal monsters.
2014, Leo Barron, Patton at the Battle of the Bulge, Penguin, →ISBN
Origin
- GermanPanzer
- GermanFaust
- GermanPanzerfaust
- EnglishPanzerfaust
Borrowed from German Panzerfaust.
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 鐵拳 /铁拳
- 鐵拳 /铁拳 (tiěquán)grenade launcher
Czech pancéřová pěst
- pancéřová pěstgrenade launcher
Finnish panssarinyrkki
- panssarinyrkkigrenade launcher
French Panzerfaust
- Panzerfaustgrenade launcher
German Panzerfaust
- Panzerfaustgrenade launcher
Japanese パンツァーファウスト
- パンツァーファウスト (pantsāfausuto)grenade launcher
Polish panzerfaust, pancerfaust
- panzerfaustgrenade launcher
- pancerfaustgrenade launcher
Romanian Panzerfaust
- Panzerfaustgrenade launcher
Russian панцерфа́уст
- панцерфа́уст (pancerfáust)grenade launcher
Cite this entry
panzerfaust. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panzerfaust
“panzerfaust.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panzerfaust. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “panzerfaust,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panzerfaust.
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