BULLET
ADJECTIVES
1942 ► GROOVED having a surface bullet wound → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► LEAD POISONED wounded by a bullet → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PIPPED wounded by a bullet → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1943 ► UP THE SPOUT of a bullet or cartridge: loaded and ready for firing → sl.
NOUNS
1450 ► GUNSTONE a bullet; a cannonball; a stone used for the shot of a cannon or gun → obs.
1626 ► PILL a bullet, shell, or in early use, a cannonball
.M18 ► BALL a bullet → US sl.
..19C ► COLD LEAD a bullet → sl.
..E19 ► LEAD TOWEL a bullet → sl.
1834 ► BLUE PILL a bullet → Amer. dial.
1843 ► BLUE WHISTLER a bullet → Amer. dial.
.M19 ► CAP a bullet, a shot → US sl.
1850 ► LEAD PILL a bullet → Amer. jocular usage
1861 ► KENTUCKY PILL a bullet → Amer. dial.
1865 ► GUT-WINDER a bullet wound in the abdomen → Amer. sl.
1877 ► DINGBAT a bullet; a cannonball; something thrown or fired with force; a flying missile → Amer. dial.
1882 ► LEADEN TONIC a serious, esp. fatal, bullet wound → Amer. West. jocular usage
1883 ► LEAD POISONING a serious, esp. fatal, bullet wound → Amer. jocular usage
1889 ► BLUE PLUM a bullet → Amer. dial.
1889 ► MUSHROOMING the flattening and expansion of a bullet on impact
1895 ► SCAT the sharp sound as of a bullet → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1899 ► CATOOCH a cartridge box → Amer. dial.
1910 ► ONE a bullet; a gunshot → sl.
1910 ► PACKET a bullet or missile → sl., orig. military usage
1915 ► CHESTNUTS bullets → World War I Amer. sl.
1915 ► HARICOT BEAN a bullet → World War I Amer. sl.
1915 ► RICCO a ricocheting bullet → World War I Amer. sl.
1915 ► WHUTT a bullet → World War I Amer. sl.
1922 ► LEAD PLUM a bullet → Amer. West. jocular usage
1928 ► COUGH the sound of a bullet or shell being fired or bursting → colloq.
1940 ► CHICAGO PILLS bullets → US criminals’ sl.
1940 ► CONFETTI machine-gun bullets → sl.
1940 ► FATAL PILL a bullet → World War II Amer. sl.
1940 ► LOVE LETTER a bullet → African-American sl.
1945 ► BEE-BEE a machine-gun bullet → World War II US Armed Forces usage
1950 ► TACK a bullet → W. Indies Rasta
1962 ► BLOCKBUSTER a .357 Magnum bullet → US sl.
1962 ► MESSENGER a bullet → US sl.
1962 ► WAD CUTTER a flat-nosed bullet → US sl.
1965 ► LIGHT a tracer bullet → US sl.
1965 ► PUNKIN BALL a bullet → Amer. dial.
1978 ► LEAD SANDWICH a bullet → US jocular usage
1981 ► YELLOW JACKET a high-velocity, hollow-nose, expanding bullet → US sl.
1981 ► ZIP a sudden, brief hissing sound, as of a bullet → Aust. colloq.
1982 ► SKIN COMPLAINT a bullet wound → US sl.
1990 ► ROCKETS bullets → African-American sl.
1991 ► BALLISTOMANIA an extreme interest in bullets (Bk.)
1992 ► GUT SHOT a bullet wound in the stomach, painful and often fatal → US sl.
1992 ► MEAT SHOT a bullet wound in a muscle, not involving a bone or organ damage → US sl.
VERBS
1893 ► MUSHROOM of a bullet: to expand and flatten on impact so as to resemble a mushroom
1915 ► PILL to strike with a bullet → World War I Amer. sl.
1937 ► SKIP of a bullet: to graze → Amer. dial.
1957 ► KEYHOLE of a bullet: to enter a target sideways → US sl.
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