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land torpedo

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English

Syllables
land -tor-pe-do
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of land mine.

Obsolete

noun

An improvised weapon, an automobile or caterpillar tractor with a bomb attached, meant to be aimed and released and to travel unguided; the on-land counterpart of a contemporary submarine's torpedo, and also viewable as a forerunner of land drones (UGVs).

Obsolete

Usage

Inflected Forms

land torpedos (plural) land torpedoes (plural)

Synonyms

land mine

Questions

What does land torpedo mean?
Synonym of land mine.

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