ghost bullet
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bullet that is shot by an unseen assailant or one that cannot be seen or heard when it is shot.
noun
A supernatural bullet that wounds or kills a person, especially one that is shot by a supernatural assailant.
Example Sentences
- "[…] not see them— ghost-bullets flying."
- "[…] a 'ghost' bullet from a resisting gun strikes an innocent American tourist; a bomb explodes and the faces of four young school-girls smile defiantly at their Israeli jailer."
- "A shot screeched past her head from the west, like a ghost bullet seemingly shot from the large gap of El Capitan itself."
- "I planned to fire what are known as "ghost bullets” —ones that nobody at the intersection would even see or hear ."
- "Let us assume that this 'ghost bullet' idea is correct. Let us write an equation which relates the distance the ordinary bullet travels with the direction of the recoil of the gun and the amount of recoil, assuming that a ghost bullet does travel off at some strange angle each time."
- "And the ghost bullet allowed me to introduce new depths of police corruption."