Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shoot through like a bondi tram

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English

Syllables: shoot through -like a bondi -tram
IPA

45

Scrabble Score

26

Letters

3

Syllables

16

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To leave in haste.

Australian usage; Colloquial; Informal

Example Sentences

"1945 April, John Scarlett, censored dispatch quoted in 2011, Fay Anderson, Richard Trembath, Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting, Melbourne University Press, page 197, […] then he gets back into his jeep says good luck boys and shoots through like a Bondi tram."
"When it came to the real thing, panic took over and the routine shot through like a Bondi tram, to be replaced by a three-ring circus."
"She had put the wind up them, called them “un-Australian”, and took to them with her parasol and they shot through like a Bondi tram, one of the men with a gash on his neck that he won′t quickly forget."

Usage

Inflected Forms

shoots through like a Bondi tram (present, singular) shooting through like a Bondi tram (participle, present) shot through like a Bondi tram (participle, past) shot through like a Bondi tram (past)

Questions

What does shoot through like a bondi tram mean?: To leave in haste.

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