weapon

plural weapons

1. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.

   The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon.

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   Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.

   2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

   Synonyms: arm

2. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.

   Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs.

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   “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

   1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   Rory Delap's long throw-ins are a familiar weapon to the Potters' opponents but this does not make them any easier to defend against.

   2011 January 15, Phil Dawkes, “Stoke 2-0 Bolton”, in BBC

3. humorousinformalA tool of any kind.

   Choose your weapon.

4. IrelandUKderogatoryslangAn idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.

   Synonyms: moron, arse

5. AustraliaslangA very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.

   I adore her in Easter Parade and Meet Me in St. Louis, but my favourite performance of hers is her concert at [New York’s] Carnegie Hall. She’s a total weapon on that stage.

   2020 October 28, Alley Pascoe, “Megan Washington's Love Letter To RuPaul”, in Marie Claire

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   It has a whopping 5.4-litre V8, with a supercharger bolted to the top of it to help low-end pulling power. In short, it's a weapon and will happily dust a Porsche as easy as brushing your teeth.

   2006 May 12, Joshua Dowling, “Brains or brawn”, in The Sydney Morning Herald

   We played Endless Heights' record release show earlier this year and during their set Christian from Endless Heights' lung collapsed, but he finished the set like an absolute weapon.

   2016 November 21, Marcus Tamp, “Hardcore 2016 Focus: Vices”, in The Music

   American teenager Caroline Marks was trotting across the sand on her dream day at North Narrabeen when Luke Egan called out to her: "You weapon!" [...] Egan was mentoring Marks in between commentary stints. He was one of the people to chair the weapon up the beach, calling out to her: "What did I tell you!"

   2021 April 20, Will Swanton, “From one goofy-footer to another: American Caroline Marks 'stoked' to win Narrabeen Classic”, in The Australian

   Synonyms: legend, champion, unit

6. rareslangThe human genitals.

   Weh you get da pussy deh from? Hey, gyal me love you Md love the way you use your weapon Gyal, your pussy tight like a vice grip

   2017 April 13, Mavado, “Ride All Night (My Kinda Girl)” (in Jamaican Creole)

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   Young motherfucking legend, niggas just pretending I spit my shit, infectious, don't come in my section Or get wet bitch with that weapon Lift the pussy, yeah I bench press it, and I been stressing since a adolescent

   2013 December 3, Beamon, “Lord Love Me” (track 2), in The BeamGod: Lost Files

   Bring my baby a present Put your head on the dresser She open her legs, then I whip out my weapon Sj immortal, the fuck is checking

   2019 February 14, “Jimmy Neutron” (track 4), in NQTATS aka CAVIN KON (lyrics), A Taste Of My Heart

   I bust a bitch down in forty-five seconds If it's good, Imma pop two Percs, and come back for seconds She probably got a felony, that's an illegal weapon Stick my whole hand in her pussy, I was tryna stretch it

   2019 June 29, “3 Minutes”, Rio Da Yung OG (lyrics)

   Synonyms: danger zone, down there, genital organs, genitalia, genitals, genitors, intimate parts, junk

present singular third person weapons · participle present weaponing · participle past weaponed · past weaponed

1. transitiveTo equip with a weapon; to arm.

   […] the friends of the country and of the equal rights of all men, the friends of enfranchising the black man and of weaponing his hand for defense; the friends of taking the governments of these rebel States out of the hands of their rebel possessors, […]

   1868, Henry Wilson, History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, 1865-68, page 425