bazooka

plural bazookas

1. entertainmentA primitive trombone having wide tubes.
2. engineeringA 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. broadlyAny shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher.
4. slangA woman's breast, especially a large one.

   Synonyms: assets, babylons, balloons, baps, badonkers, bangers, bazongas, bazookas

5. slangbusinessA large rescue or stimulus package.

   “I don’t think [policymakers]^([sic]) realise it’s not enough,” said a veteran fixed-income investor in Hong Kong. “You need some big bazooka action to improve sentiment as a whole.”

   2022 August 24, Thomas Hale, Cheng Leng, Hudson Lockett, “Investors price in $130bn loss on China developers’ dollar bonds”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2022

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   Suppose the EFSF buys some bonds. That will push down yields for awhile.^([sic]) But what happens when the money starts to run out? Yields will go back up. A firebreak/firewall/bazooka needs unlimited funds to work.

   2012 June 21, Matthew O'Brien, “Why the Euro Crisis Will Never End in 1 Chart”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2013

present singular third person bazookas · participle present bazookaing · participle past bazookaed · past bazookaed

1. To shoot with a bazooka.

1. slanguncountableCrack cocaine.