Noun: bazooka
| Singular | bazooka |
| Plural | bazookas |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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“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:]
Nouns inflected like bazooka
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From an extension of the word bazoo (“mouth, boastful talk”), which ultimately probably stems from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). In the finance sense first used by policymakers during the European debt crisis (2010). See: Dutch Nouns '
bazuin'.
Verbs referencing "bazooka"
Dutch Nouns
bazooka, Finnish Nouns
bazooka, French Nouns
bazooka, Swedish Nouns
bazooka, Catalan Nouns
bazuca, Portuguese Nouns
bazuca, English Nouns
basuco, Spanish Nouns
bazuco, German Nouns
Bazooka.