vi et armis

From Latin vi et armis (“with force and arms”).

Crabtree […] was so much incensed at his breach of punctuality, that he ordered him to be denied; and when the young gentleman forced his entrance into his chamber, vi & armis, would not open his mouth; but assuming the most grim contraction of his countenance, sat in sullen silence […].

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

It was current in the nursery that he was a black man who expelled us vi et armis.

1873, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Pillars of the House:

By force, violently; specifically, causing damage to a person or property.


slaughterbot

(science fiction) Synonym of killbot (“robot designed for killing”)


LOW

(rail transport) The station code of Lo Wu in Hong Kong.


hitperson

en-noun

hitperson (plural hitpersons or hitpeople)


Stalin's organ

Calque of German Stalinorgel, in reference to its resemblance to a pipe organ and its distinctive sound.

(military, World War II, slang) A Katyusha rocket launcher.


death-dealing

The country was at that time ruled by a death-dealing tyrant.

The aliens were armed with an array of death-dealing weapons.

Causing or inflicting death, or capable of doing so; lethal.


missile gap

Coordinate term: bomber gap

(US, military, historical) The perceived superiority during the Cold War of the number and power of the USSR's missiles in comparison with those of the United States.


bomber gap

Coordinate term: missile gap

(US, military, historical) The perceived superiority during the Cold War of the USSR's ability to deploy jet-powered strategic bombers.


cottonclad

(nautical) A wooden warship, of the Confederate States during the American Civil War, that used bales of cotton to protect it from enemy fire.


glass parking lot

A wide range of explosives can convert sand into glass upon detonation, as a temperate of only 1700 Celsius is required. The most recognized generation process was through nuclear testing with the discovery of (Trinitite), but other munition are capable of the same result, without implying the use of a nuclear attack.

[…]it is common for Americans to respond with the convictions that "they wouldn't dare" and "we'll turn them into a glass parking lot" (that is, we'll attack them with nuclear weapons until there is nothing left of them).

2015, Brad Roberts, The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century:

(US, informal) Total destruction in the aftermath of a nuclear attack.


doomsday plane

(informal) An aircraft to be used as an airborne command post in the event of nuclear war or similar large-scale disaster.


Free China

Chungking became the wartime capital of Free China, and Szechwan, that vast, barely accessible province hidden behind steep mountain ranges, became the country’s wartime base.

1943, Hubert Freyn, Free China's New Deal, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 6:

Work centers in Nanping (formerly called Yenping) where are located the Nanping General Hospital and a high school for boys and girls. The conference has about 50 churches and 3,000 members. This conference is in Free China. Refugee institutions from Foochow have been temporarily located within the Yenping Conference—the Hwa Nan College and Hwa Nan High School at Nanping, and the Anglo-Chinese College and Union Kindergarten Training School at Yankow.

1944, Arthur J. Moore, Christ After Chaos, New York: Board of Missions and Church Extension The Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 32:

(historical, World War II) Those areas of China not occupied by Japan, including areas dominated by Communist resistance.


catalytic war

By this definition, World War I was a catalytic war, set off by Serbia and Austria, which also had some overtones of "reciprocal fear of surprise attack" and "self-fulfilling prophecy," because the side which mobilized first was likely to win.

1966, Richard A. Falk, Saul H. Mendlovitz, The Strategy of World Order: Toward a theory of war prevention, page 30:

Indeed a catalytic war seems much more likely to be touched off by a desperate or vengeful power than an ambitious one.

1968, United States Air Force Academy. Department of Political Science, Mark E. Smith, American Defense Policy (page 91)

A war initiated by one party and continued by others.


First War

Synonym of First World War (“World War I”)


Second War

Second World War
Second World War#English

Synonym of Second World War (“World War II”)


highly-enriched uranium

(nuclear physics, military) Enriched uranium containing at least 20% uranium-235 (some applications, such as fission weapons and naval reactors, use uranium enriched to as high as 80-95% uranium-235), and therefore capable of sustaining a nuclear fission chain reaction without needing a moderator; used in nuclear weapons and in a few types of nuclear reactors requiring very high power density or high neutron flux.


tacnuke

Probably it would go as this: the Soviets attack with as little warning as possible in a holiday with a massive BC assault together with their mechanized wave. Maybe a tacnuke or two (or two dozens) are exchanged between WARPACT and NATO troops in Germany and Turkey (i'm thinking of the Thrace area). After 2-3 weeks either the Soviets reach the Rhine and ask for an armistice or the war stalemates and ask for an armistice.

2018 October 16, El_Presidente, “Reply to "WW3 in the late 80s: How long does the munition last?"”, in alternatehistory.com, archived from the original on 2021-02-21:

(military, slang) A tactical nuclear weapon.


downblend

en-verb

downblend (third-person singular simple present downblends, present participle downblending, simple past and past participle downblended)

downblends (present singular third-person)
downblending (participle present)
downblended (participle past)
downblended (past)

The facility has the capacity to downblend 5 tonnes of bomb-grade uranium per year.

highly-enriched uranium
highly-enriched uranium

slightly-enriched uranium
slightly-enriched uranium

low-enriched uranium
low-enriched uranium

(usually transitive, nuclear physics) To blend highly-enriched uranium, typically from decommissioned nuclear weapons, with uranium containing a low concentration of fissile uranium-235 (slightly-enriched uranium, natural uranium, or depleted uranium) in order to convert it to low-enriched uranium suitable for use as fuel in standard power reactors but not usable for a fission bomb.


prompt criticality

en-noun

prompt criticality (usually uncountable, plural prompt criticalities)

The system is thought to have approached prompt criticality, at which time the rate of power increase would have been determined by the neutron lifetime (on the order of milliseconds).

2000, Thomas P. McLaughlin with Shean P. Monahan, Norman L. Pruvost, Vladimir V. Frolov, Boris G. Ryazanov, and Victor I. Sviridov, “I. A. 19. Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, 17 October 1978”, in A Review of Criticality Accidents: 2000 Revision, Los Alamos National Laboratory, archived from the original on 2022-03-25, page 46:

(nuclear physics) The point at which the prompt neutrons produced by a nuclear fission chain reaction are just sufficient to sustain the chain reaction on their own (the state of being prompt critical); past this point, changes in reaction power are controlled by changes in the prompt neutron flux, and occur on a timeframe of milliseconds, too rapidly to be controlled by mechanical means.


prompt critical

The number of fissions in the two prompt critical excursions was estimated from (1) the doses received by the operator and shift supervisor and (2) the measured exposure rate from fission product gamma–rays (1.5 mR/s at 3 m from the vessel, 1 hour after the last excursion).

2000, Thomas P. McLaughlin with Shean P. Monahan, Norman L. Pruvost, Vladimir V. Frolov, Boris G. Ryazanov, and Victor I. Sviridov, “I. A. 17. Mayak Production Association, 10 December 1968”, in A Review of Criticality Accidents: 2000 Revision, Los Alamos National Laboratory, archived from the original on 2021-02-24, page 42:

(nuclear physics) Of the point where the prompt neutrons produced by a nuclear fission chain reaction are just sufficient to sustain the chain reaction on their own, past which changes in reaction power occur on a timeframe of milliseconds, too rapidly for a human operator to control.


trans bash

en-verb

trans bash (third-person singular simple present trans bashes, present participle trans bashing, simple past and past participle trans bashed)

trans bashes (present singular third-person)
trans bashing (participle present)
trans bashed (participle past)
trans bashed (past)

(transitive, slang) To physically or verbally assault or victimize someone due to the victim's being (or appearing to be) transgender (including non-binary).


NDB

non-directional beacon
nuclear depth bomb

(aviation) Initialism of non-directional beacon, a type of radiobeacon used in air navigation which transmits an omnidirectional radio signal containing no encoded information about the direction from an aircraft to the beacon.

non-directional beacon

(military, nautical) Initialism of nuclear depth bomb.


pain compliance

The use of painful stimulus to control a subject, including the use of pressure on painful areas, hyperextension or hyperflexion, weapons, or chemical irritants.


war establishment

en-noun

war establishment (countable and uncountable, plural war establishments)

In the case of a European war, we presume that the strength of the different units would be brought up to the regulation full war establishment.

the number of military troops and equipment that a military unit is supposed to have in wartime


EXCOMM

(US, historical) The Executive Committee of the National Security Council: a body of United States government officials that convened to advise President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.


balance of terror

Probably coined by Lester Pearson in June 1955 at the 10th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter: “The balance of terror has succeeded the balance of power.”

(historical) The tenuous peace that existed during the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.


anti-ballistic missile

anti-ballistic missile (plural anti-ballistic missiles)

(military, astronautics) A missile designed to shoot down ballistic missiles in flight.


finite deterrence

(military) The strategy of making a nuclear victory so costly that it is preferable for the enemy not to fight.


Foch

Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal in the First World War


Lost Cause

From the generic term lost cause. The Confederacy was, of course, defeated.

Also implicit was the idea that all southerners accepted the basic tenets of the Lost Cause myth and concurred in this celebration of the Confederacy.

1993 April, H. E. Gulley, “Women and the Lost Cause: preserving a Confederate identity in the American Deep South”, in Journal of Historical Geography, volume 19, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 125–141:

The belief that the Confederate cause during the American Civil War was just and not related to slavery.


war of independence

war of independence (plural wars of independence)

A civil war by which a rebellious party achieves its independence from a state or ruler.


entrance wound

Most entrance wounds, no matter the range, are surrounded by a reddish, reddish-brown zone of abraded skin—the abrasion ring (Figure 4.16).

1998, Vincent J. M. Di Maio, Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 83:

(pathology, forensics) Synonym of entry wound


January 6

It was finally time, per Trump’s instructions, to march down Pennsylvania Avenue. The rest you know all about, despite efforts by most Republicans in Congress to hide the truth of January 6.

2021 June 14, Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Capitol Riot Was Prologue”, in The Atlantic:

The attack against the United States Congress at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.


guillotine choke

guillotine choke (plural guillotine chokes)

A chokehold applied from in front of the opponent, using the arms to encircle the opponent's neck.


supermissile

An interview with Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations in which he describes the Navy's role in an era of H-bombs and supermissiles.

1956, Army Library (U.S.), Special Bibliographies, United States Department of the Army, Army Library, page 91:

For example, the details of the new Soviet SS9 supermissile, which apparently was not thought to be a proper subject to include in a formal “posture statement” were abruptly declassified and trotted out as Exhibit A in the case for Soviet aggressiveness as it was presented live for all to see and hear.

1969, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Organization and Disarmament Affairs, Strategic and Foreign Policy Implications of ABM Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 316:

“It’s a bomber! It’s a supermissile! No — it’s a dove.”

1981 November 20, Herbert Lawrence Block, “‘It’s a Dove”, in coldwar.unc.edu:

(military) An extremelypowerful, self-propelled projectile whose trajectory is adjustable after it is launched.


Dead Hand

The system may no longer be a central element of Russian strategy—US-based Russian arms expert Pavel Podvig calls it now "just another cog in the machine"—but Dead Hand is still armed.

2009 September 21, Nicholas Thompson, “Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine”, in Wired, →ISSN:

A system capable of closing a strategic nuclear strike control loop in the absence of normal command and control channels, analogous in concept to a deadman switch, in anticipation of a decapitation strike. Implemented by the Soviet Union and by the Russian Federation as the successor state thereof.


doomsday bomb

The doomsday bomb is terrifying. It puts the mightiest nukes to shame.

Synonym for doomsday device or doomsday weapon


OIS

OIS (countable and uncountable, plural OIS)

But an objective overview of the current literature and research associated with post-OIS officer support compared to various aspects of the research ...

2007, David E. Hatch, Randy Dickson, Officer-Involved Shootings and Use of Force: Practical Investigative Techniques, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 188:

Officer-involved shooting (OIS) investigations are directed at the determination of whether the shooter officer's decision to use deadly force was "objectively reasonable […]"

2017, Darrell L. Ross, Gary M. Vilke, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody, Routledge, →ISBN, page 285:

The SHOT database gathered a dataset of 4283 officer-involved shootings (OIS) that have occurred in 50 states between January 2000 and December 2017 […]

2019, James F. Albrecht, Garth den Heyer, Perry Stanislas, Policing and Minority Communities: Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives, Springer, →ISBN, page 117:

officer-involved shooting
officer-involved shooting#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of officer-involved shooting.


Chancellorsville

After George Chancellor; from Chancellor + -s- + -ville.

An unincorporated community in Virginia. Best known as the site of the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863).


transfemicide

transfemicide (countable and uncountable, plural transfemicides)

When Monica Loera was shot to death near our North Austin home on January 22, her murder became the first of the nation's twenty-seven trans* homicides and the first of Texas's four transfemicides.

2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism, page 145:

In recent years, contemporary protest movements such as NiUnaMenos (NotOne[Woman]Less) have drawn attention to the country's rising number of femicides, a category that in Argentina includes transvesticides and transfemicides.

2019, C. J. W.-L. Wee, “Contemporary theatre, the contemporary, and historicity”, in Helena Grehan, Peter Eckersall, editors, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, unnumbered page:

At the same time, it enables higher levels of sexist violence in society, with its wake of femicides, transvesticides, transfemicides and other hate crimes.

2020, Celeste Fierro, Feminism in Debate, Reform or Revolution?, unnumbered page:

The killing of a trans woman because of her gender, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.


Burma Road

From the name of a road in Burma which ran to the frontier with China, built in 1937–1938 by the British in order to circumvent the Japanese blockade of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) during World War II.

A “Burma Road” for Africa, or, in fact, a pair of “Burma Roads,” may develop from the current improvement of British and Free French roads across Central Africa.

1942 March 9, “New Allied Life Line Across Africa”, in Geographic School Bulletin, volume 21, number 3:

Between January 1, 1943, and June 1, 1945, an average of slightly more than 17 trains plied daily between the two termini of the railway. During all this period, it served as the super-Burma Road to Russia.

1947, Raj Narain Gupta, Iran: An Economic Study, page 145:

The Israelis were able to break the stranglehold by bypassing the normal route to Jerusalem through building a “Burma Road” to resupply the city.

2007, Michael Rydelnik, Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict: What the Headlines Haven’t Told You, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 102:

(figuratively) An important military supply route.

Second Sino-Japanese War
The Railway Magazine


hyperbomb

The hyperbomb of that day will have lost meaning as a weapon and gained meaning as a complex substitute for Francoise Sagan's "sports" car, as this death device is so playfully called.

1957, Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play, World Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 33:

"He went back inside," Igor grunted. "After examining the artefacts we'd packed for dispatch. Probably wants to make sure the computer records don't describe them as ultra-guns or hyperbombs or whatever the hell."

1974, John Brunner, Total Eclipse, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 33:

We entered an area where a hyperbomb had been detonated during the war.

2014, J. Michael Reeves, Terry Austin, Byron Preiss, I—Alien, J. Boylston, →ISBN:

(rare, military, science fiction, video games) An exceedingly powerful, destructive bomb; superbomb.


Armenian genocide

(historical) The systematic mass murder of around one million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I (1915–1917).

Meds Yeghern

used especially by Armenians when speaking English


War of the Sicilian Vespers

the War of the Sicilian Vespers (canonical)

1999, Donald J. Kagay, Donald Kagay, L. J. Andrew Villalon (editors), The Circle of War in the Middle Ages, Boydell & Brewer (The Boydell Press), page xiv,
In the last of this section's papers, Lawrence Mott deals with the emergence of the Crown of Aragon as a Mediterranean power during the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282-1302).

In addition to the Hohenstaufens, the Aragonese were also targets of French venom after the conclusion of the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

2011, Michael A. Ryan, A Kingdom of Stargazers, Cornell University Press, page 48:

The resulting War of the Sicilian Vespers would endure for the next twenty years and would involve almost every part of the Mediterranean in some way.

2015, Charles D Stanton, Medieval Maritime Warfare, Pen & Sword Books, page 136:

(historical) A war between the Crowns of Aragon and Angevin which was triggered by the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282 and resulted in the division of the Kingdom of Sicily, with Aragon taking the island while Angevin retained the peninsular territories.


peace through strength

The idea that nations can remain in peace by display of their military power as a deterrent to war.


Derg

Borrowed from Amharic ደርግ (därg, “committee; council”).

bor+

(historical) The Provisional Military Administrative Council, the communist military junta that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987.


Thirty Years' War

(historical) A conflict fought largely within the Holy Roman Empire from 1618 to 1648.

三十年戦争

さんじゅうねん せんそう


Aroostook War

(historical) A military and civilian confrontation (1838–1839) between the United States and the United Kingdom over dispute of an international boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine.


slap someone around

en-verb

slap someone around (third-person singular simple present slaps someone around, present participle slapping someone around, simple past and past participle slapped someone around)

slaps someone around (present singular third-person)
slapping someone around (participle present)
slapped someone around (participle past)
slapped someone around (past)

(idiomatic) To be brutal towards someone, especially physically.


dive-bomb

dive-bomb (third-person singular simple present dive-bombs, present participle dive-bombing, simple past and past participle dive-bombed)

dive-bombs (present singular third-person)
dive-bombing (participle present)
dive-bombed (participle past)
dive-bombed (past)

On June 13, the cross-channel steamer St. Patrick was dive-bombed and sunk by enemy aircraft towards the end of its trip from Rosslare to Fishguard.

1941 August, “Notes and News: G.W.R. Steamer Sunk”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:


Uranium Club

(historical) A German project during World War II to research nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors.


McNuke

From Mc- + nuke; a McDonaldsesque rendering of the word nuke to imply its ubiquitous and unconditional availability.

Everybody has nukes. It is so bad, reports now say that McDonald's is
developing the McNuke.

1999 October 15, no...@house.gov, “1999CRH10036B EVERYBODY HAS NUKES”, in gov.us.fed.congress.record.house (Usenet):

Well, even though I am an evil Amerikan retentionistae, I have to admit that
the thought of a McNuked McFoodstand is delightful indeed. One down, about
five thousand to go...

2000 April 19, Terry C. Shannon, “French Heros^([sic]) Strike Blow Against McDonalds^([sic])”, in alt.activism.death-penalty (Usenet):

Smooth thinking, Rich! Perhaps a few dozen Russian nuclear scientist can
go to work for Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, or Argentina if McDonalds^([sic])
stops taking applications. Just think, the McNuke! You want fries with
that?

2005 May 22, LarryG, “Sky & Telescope's News Bulletin - May 20”, in sci.astro (Usenet):

This is precisely the type of discussion we need to have. There is "gun control" and there is "gun control." A strong case - which I made repeatedly and successfully - can be made for the right of self-defense through gun ownership. Going from this to an absolute refusal to even discuss things like red flags, large capacity mags, bump stocks...not to mention automatic weapons, RPGs, McNukes...means an end of discussion for a huge number of people. This is what he means by "pragmatic."

2018 November 7, fundraisi...@lpcolorado.org, “Fwd: Angry Letter to Libertarian Party - Where the F*** are you?”, in LPCO-open-business (Usenet):

(humorous, informal) A hypothetical, commercially available nuclear bomb.


goodify

goodify (third-person singular simple present goodifies, present participle goodifying, simple past and past participle goodified)

goodifies (present singular third-person)
goodifying (participle present)
goodified (participle past)
goodified (past)

From good + -ify.
* (kill a black person): Coined in reference to the phrase "the only good nigger is a dead nigger", a popular saying among white supremacists.

All its goodness wears a sickly hue: it is only the badness of the reckless brother that claims our interest, and even he is “goodified” at the end.

1879, The International Review, volume 6, page 712:

Black may be planning to 'goodify' his bad bishop with a future ...♗g5, in which case he has the ...hxg5 option.

2015, Cyrus Lakdawala, Tal: Move by Move, London: Everyman Chess, →ISBN, page 301:

Ellacu, if you will allow me the expression—which I believe is a neologism—those who are grateful have the ability “to goodify reality” [“buenear la realidad”].

2018, Robert Lasalle-Klein, Jon Sobrino: Spiritual Writings:

(transitive, rare, nonstandard) To make good; to improve.

2015 January 24, Fred Oinka, “Scum nigger shot his family, killing 3, then goodified himself”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

The trigger niggers, Samuel Fayomi Brown, 20, of Hyattsville, and Tierek Ty Jay Thomas, 20, of Washington, police say, had a plan: Lure a marijuana dealer, to a dead-end street, surround its hooptie and take its $1,000 worth of pot.
Goodified in the incident was Waasi Harron Raheem Young, 20, a Washington crapper that went by “YC” or “TrapFlavaCee,” according to court records.

2017 March 16, Rick Mathers, “"You are shooting me!"”, in soc.culture.african-american (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

An 18-year-old trigger teennigger, Dakale Bowman aka Sean Bowman, was arrested Monday and charged with murder in the goodification of 16-year-old anus lipped teendusa Taiyania Thompson that was ventilated in an apepartment near Gallaudet University on Thursday and gave a bat its wings the following Sunday, January 28, authorities said.

2018 February 21, Hansi Gehirn-Schaden, “Anus lipped teendusa posing with guns for social media was goodified by its boonfriend”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

Pastor Weathers goodified nigger bucksow Slough ^([sic]) with a single gunshot to the chest.

2019 April 10, Robert Wolfe, “Nigger pastor kills tranny in Detroit”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

2020 September 10, Siri Cruise, “Chimpopo goodifies and aggravated knife weilding groid”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

(transitive, Internet slang, offensive, ethnic slur) To kill or murder a black person.


goodification

en-noun

goodification (usually uncountable, plural goodifications)

From good + -ification or goodify + -ication.

It took until 2012 for the change to actually be implemented, but when it was, it was trumpeted as the 'Goodification' of KFC.

(rare, nonstandard) The state or process of being goodified or made good.


border state

In the American Civil War, one of the slave states that did not join the Confederacy.


Emancipation Proclamation

A proclamation, announced by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, and going into effect on January 1, 1863; that all slaves in areas in rebellion (i.e. under Confederate control) would be free.


Tsar Bomba

Borrowed from Russian Царь-бо́мба (Carʹ-bómba, “emperor of bombs”).

bor

A 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest nuke ever exploded.


Harpers Ferry

From Harper's ferry, after a ferry operated by Robert Harper.

Allamakee County
Allamakee County#English

A minor city in Taylor Township, Allamakee County, Iowa, United States.


Okolona

A number of places in the United States:

A neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.

Chickasaw County
Chickasaw County#English

A city in and one of the two county seats of Chickasaw County, Mississippi. It was the site of the Battle of Okolona in the American Civil War, with Confederate forces being led by Nathan Bedford Forrest.

An unincorporated community in Napoleon Township, Henry County, Ohio.


bulletfest

An occasion in which there is much shooting; a shootout.


horcrux

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Lord Voldemort

Coined by author J. K. Rowling through the random "transposition of syllables," though fans have pointed to the possible influence of Middle English hore (“iniquity, evil, sin”) and English crux (“the central or essential part”). The term first appears in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005).

They stared at it as if it was the one ring or the holy grail or a horcrux, or perhaps all of them rolled into one. An empty, plastic cat food bowl.

2013, Adam Rawlins, The Strange Encounter of Sally Shakespeare and Toby Tinker, page 24:

They were standard fit, vintage wash, pretty expensive, and I showed them to him and I said, “These are yours if you want them.” And do you know what he did? He actually flinched. Like these were haunted pants or something. Like these were Horcrux jeans with a piece of Lord Voldemort’s soul in them.

2013, Teddy Steinkellner, Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga, page 20:

Again, he didn’t say anything and she asked him about the arrowhead—was it his Horcrux or something? was there a piece of his soul trapped inside it?—and he shrugged it off.

2016, Joe Halstead, West Virginia, page 38:

In the Harry Potter series, an object in which a wizard has concealed a part of their soul through magic, rendering them immortal until the object is irreparably damaged or destroyed.


Manhattan Project

A program by the United States during World War II, to develop an atomic bomb


implosion bomb

A nuclear bomb that uses implosion to compress the fissile material, so that it goes from subcritical to critical.


Cuban Missile Crisis

A diplomatic crisis in 1962, between the United States and the Soviet Union, over Soviet nuclear missiles placed in Cuba. It almost led to nuclear war.


bomb material

Material that is good for making nuclear bombs: e.g., certain isotopes of uranium, neptunium, and plutonium.


cobalt bomb

A nuclear bomb that includes cobalt, which will absorb neutrons and become radioactive cobalt-60.


nuclear fratricide

en-noun

nuclear fratricide (plural nuclear fratricides)

The damage or destruction of nuclear warheads from other nuclear warheads


gun-type bomb

gun-type bomb . (canonical)
gun-type bombs (plural)

A nuclear bomb that slams one piece of nuclear explosive into another, forming a critical mass.


World Freedom Day

I made my first visit to Taiwan in 1974 in order to take part in a World Freedom Day rally in Taipei. The rally was sponsored by the World League for Freedom and Democracy, an organization with 120 national chapters worldwide.

2005, Jesse Helms, Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/hereswhereistand0000helm/page/n200/:

a memorial day celebrated on January 23 in Taiwan and South Korea


superwarhead

And he said the Russians would need a "superwarhead" on their own minuteman-type weapon in order to be successful.

1961, Associated Press Clippings File Europe Disorders 1961-09-01, Press Association Inc., page 2:

A thousand times more powerful than the A-bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, this superwarhead would be capable of imposing great blast or overpressure on a very large area.

1970, Ralph E. Lapp, Arms Beyond Doubt: The Tyranny of Weapons Technology, Cowles Book Company, →ISBN, page 59:

Approval for its development may have been facilitated by Khrushchev’s interest in large-yield "terror weapons," for whose delivery the SS-9 was ideally suited. (Khrushchev boasted publicly about the Soviet possession of such weapons and the atmospheric thermonuclear test series conducted in August-September 1961 included the explosion of a superwarhead with a yield of approximately 50 megatons.)

1977, The Military in Contemporary Soviet Politics: An Institutional Analysis, Praeger, →ISBN, page 190:

However, every smaller terrorist state has its own superwarheads, happily sold to them by the big powers' armament industries. The problem of the deterrent has merely been displaced to the irresponsible and the fanatical.

1990, Christine Brooke-Rose, Verbivore, Carcanet, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:

(rare, military) An extremely destructive and powerful warhead.


German 88

(colloquial, World War II, military, historical) A WWII German 88mm anti-aircraft artillery multi-purpose field gun.


warhungry

en-adj

warhungry (comparative more warhungry, superlative most warhungry)

more warhungry (comparative)
most warhungry (superlative)

UK?!? Those tights-wearing slops? Never! The blood of warhungry vikings flows in my blood! I'm Danish!!!!! And you?

2000 May 31, Anders Honore, “weather report”, in alt.philosophy.zen (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-02:

The thing that surprised me most about the figures were:
1. How warhungry India and Israel are. While on average, about 20% of the worlds population think the USA ought to attack a country found responsible, it rises to 54% in the USA (as one might expect), but its^([sic]) a massive 72% and 77% in India and Israel!

2001 November 8, GD, “Cluster Bombs”, in aus.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-02:

If America goes to war with North-Korea I am absolutely sure that even if North-Korea is likely to loose,^([sic]) the vast majority of the world will cheer if America gets punched in ways that make Pearl Harbor and September 11th look like Thanksgiving.
That would teach warhungry America a good lesson and make people in most poor countries celebrate.

2003 April 7, Herbert, “Next stop: N-Korea”, in us.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-02:

Face it, Americans suck. Theyre the most warhungry nutters on the face of the planet

2003 July 15, pork'n'stuffing, “Franklin Mint & Diana”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-02:

You are going to be destroyed, the world perhaps not going to be a better place because of that, but the most warhungry Empire in the world will have met its well deserved fate.

2012 September 25, Jos Boersema, “Jews and Communism”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-02:

And when everybody around you is a warhungry savage;
going full out peace loving tree hugging save the planet mode did not work.

2014 September 11, Bassos, “The Quran - The Final Revelation to Mankind”, in alt.magick (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-02:


pals battalion

From pals + battalion, from the sense that one's pals would fight along with them.

(UK, military, historical) A group of men who were friends before being enlisted, all of whom were placed into a single battalion in order to incentivize enlistment in the British Army during World War I.


Rocketman

Coined by Donald Trump in September 19, 2017 for a United Nations speech, in reference to Kim's launch of military rockets.

coined

Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime.

Little Rocketman has totally misrepresented denuke plan we offered. Deals can't get made when there is no trust! Fat kid blew it and will be sorry. Sad!
[…]
Rocketman's sister IS NOT North Korea's IVANKA. Ivanka is 6 feet tall. She's got the best body. Rocketman's sister is flat as a board!

2018 August 7, Dr Jeffrey Lewis, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC:

It wouldn't surprise me. I thought Trump was using Bolton as the "bad cop" in
North Korea, and would use him to annoy Rocketman, then fire him and be the
"good cop".

2019 October 2, Rick Sabian, “THE WHISTLE BLOWER IS”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

Today in North Korea we see the lasting Karma of those events where the Japanese mutilated millions for the sheer lust of it. And North Korea's Rocketman wins the fearful adoration of his peoples in consequence.

2019 October 23, RANCE DEWITT, AMAZON COVENANT 2020 TRUMP and BOLSONARO, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(slang, humorous, derogatory, neologism) North Korean politician Kim Jong-un.


war of ideas

A disagreement of opposing ideas between countries, which leads to the exercise of their influence abroad to spread their respective ideologies.


Jeff Davis's necktie

en-noun

Jeff Davis's necktie (plural Jeff Davis's neckties)


Sherman's bow tie

Sherman's bow tie (plural Sherman's bow ties)


war is hell

The short-term and long-term effects of war are greatly devastating and immeasurable.


space bridge

In a later Donahue/Pozner space bridge the question of editing was dramatically underscored on air in the Soviet Union.

1992, Ellen Mickiewicz, Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union, page 48:

(historical) A series of experimental international telecasts between Soviet and United States viewers, arranged by enthusiasts during the late Cold War era.


child sex abuse

A 2020 study that examined three decades of research on sex education found that comprehensive sex ed that begins in elementary school can help prevent child sex abuse, among other benefits.

2022 April 14, Olga Khazan, “Republicans Have Sex Ed All Wrong”, in The Atlantic:

Online child sex abuse has increased by 27 per cent in just two years, as the NSPCC called for tougher laws to combat “digital breadcrumbing” that signposts paedophiles to illegal content.

2022 April 15, Charles Hymas, “Online child sex abuse up by 27 per cent in two years”, in The Telegraph:

child sexual abuse
child sexual abuse#English

(crime) Alternative form of child sexual abuse.


child sexual abuse

Alternative form: child sex abuse

More than $100 million has been paid out to victims of institutional child sexual abuse in Queensland, amid more than 13,000 national applications for redress.

2022 April 14, Cloe Read, “$100m paid out to child sexual abuse victims in schools, churches”, in Brisbane Times:

One meta-analysis found that European countries, many of which offer comprehensive, mandatory sex ed, including for young children, tend to have the lowest rates of child sexual abuse in the world.

(crime) Sexual abuse of a child by an adult or older child.


SVSH

sexual harassment
sexual harassment#English

Acronym of sexual violence and sexual harassment.


Napoleonic Wars

A series of wars (1803–1815) between France (ruled by Napoleon) and other European countries.


rocket artillery

rocket artillery (usually uncountable, plural rocket artilleries)

(military) Artillery that uses rockets as projectiles, instead of shells or shot; artillery composed of rocket launchers instead of guns.

реактивная артиллерия (reaktivnaya artilleriya, literally “Rocket artillery”) (Literally)


en-verb

kill0r (third-person singular simple present kill0rs, present participle kill0ring, simple past and past participle kill0red)

> How did you know it was Fury?
The "We are the Furbies and will kill0r j00 4ll!" msgs to the GC probably gave it away.

2001 June 19, Kit, “When Furby attacks......”, in rec.games.computer.planetarion (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-06:

Anyone who listened to my song, thanks, but I've missed any comments - my NNTP server only keeps posts for a week, then it kill0rs them. Boo-urns!

2001 September 4, Jonathan McArthur, “Eh, fuck it.”, in alt.music.radiohead (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-06:

14) Spike and Angel are trying to kill0r the middle huge demons but are doing sweet FA damage. Cue some Fatherly and Son dialogue between Spike, Angel and Connor.

2004 May 23, Dan Lam, “Part two of the Angel Final Episode”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-06:

I HAVE TEH KILL0rED 10 MILLION PEOPLES. I BLAME THE WAR ON TERROR AS I EMULATED THE SHOOTERS

2004 July 29, David Beamish, “BAN THIS SICK FILTH! AGAIN!”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-06:

I'm pretty sure that if Ganon had been left out of TP, Mr Guest would be saying 'TEHY HVAE KILL0RED TEH Z3LDAR!!11!!one!'

2006 January 25, Sir Chewbury Gubbins, “Zelda TP developer: "we're preparing more than you could possibly ever, ever, ever expect"”, in alt.games.video.nintendo.gameboy.advance (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-06:


scalping knife

(dated, chiefly US) Any of a loosely defined class of ample-bellied knives that largely overlaps with other classes such as hunting knife, butcher knife, and bushcraft knife.


domestic terrorism

en-noun

domestic terrorism (usually uncountable, plural domestic terrorisms)

A bomb went off outside the offices of a Greek business federation in the heart of Athens early on Tuesday, causing damage but no injuries, the police said. It was the first such attack under the country’s leftist-led government, fueling fears of a possible resurgence of domestic terrorism.

2015 November 24, Niki Kitsantonis, “Athens Blast Hurts None but Fuels Fears of Domestic Terrorism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In a statement on Tuesday, the president of the F.B.I. Agents Association, Brian O’Hare, urged Congress “to make domestic terrorism a federal crime. This would ensure that F.B.I. agents and prosecutors have the best tools to fight domestic terrorism.”

2019 August 7, Charlie Savage, quoting Brian O’Hare, “What Could a Domestic Terrorism Law Do?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Expressing deep concern about violence tied to white supremacy and other forms of bigotry, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed on Thursday to make New York the first state to classify “hate-fueled” killings as domestic terrorism.

2019 August 15, Vivian Wang, “New York Moves to Classify Killings Fueled by White Supremacy as Domestic Terrorism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A form of terrorism in which victims within a country are targeted by a perpetrator with the same citizenship as the victims.


cross someone's T

en-verb

cross someone's T (third-person singular simple present crosses someone's T, present participle crossing someone's T, simple past and past participle crossed someone's T)

crosses someone's T (present singular third-person)
crossing someone's T (participle present)
crossed someone's T (participle past)
crossed someone's T (past)

From the shape formed by the opposing battle lines, which resembles a capital letter T.

No sooner has the fleet settled onto this course than a small group of Japanese cruisers and actual, real, live, all-singing, all-dancing, all-features-included, protected-by-the-Emperor torpedo boats begin to move to cross the T of the Russian fleet. Worried about a torpedo attack on his lead battleships and determined to sweep this small formation aside, Rozhestvensky orders his main ships into a line abreast, a far-more-potent display of force that allows every forward-pointing gun on his capital ships to bear at the same time.

2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 12:24 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse..., archived from the original on 2022-12-04:

(military, nautical) To sail one's battle line across the front of the enemy battle line, allowing one to bring one's full firepower to bear on the enemy battle line while limiting the firepower that the enemy can use in return.


serial kill

serial kill (third-person singular simple present serial kills, present participle serial killing, simple past and past participle serial killed)

serial kills (present singular third-person)
serial killing (participle present)
serial killed (participle past)
serial killed (past)

When the idea that Samantha had been kidnapped by a serial killer first came up in last night's "paper hearts", my sis and I droned out the ensuing commercials by babbling at each other:
"Oh no! She was serial killed! It all makes sense! Poor Mulder!"

1996 December 16, Claire Kerr, “Moose's Mum Confessed So Whut Wuz He Thinkin'?”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

Wayne Williams(black) was responsible for the serial killings of several black childern in Atlanta. He committed serial murder in proportion to his race that comprises nearly 13% of the total U.S. population . Charles Eng(Asian) killed serveral people of various races in the northern California area. He serial killed in proportion to his race that comprises less than 3% of the total U.S. population

1999 September 2, Jim, “Why do negros kill people?”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

Sure, there are non-whites who murder whites. I can't think of a single case in the U.S., however, where a non-white has serial killed as many victims as Franklin on the basis of racist ideology.

2000 July 31, birk...@my-deja.com, “We need more like Benjamin Smith.”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

> I think MB would make a good serial killer; better than dumb, old Henry Lucas or those lame Hillside Stranglers.
A person would be proud to be serial killed by MB.

2003 June 19, righter, “I almost had to shoot somebody tonight”, in alt.tv.sopranos (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

Again, quality over quantity. Avoid the elderly and sick, as they tend to be ignored also. Children are OK, but only if they have parents who can cry for the cameras. You almost never hear of orphans being serial killed, and not because they aren't.

2005 March 13, Offshore Eddie, “Re: Serial Killer DOs and DON'Ts”, in alt.true-crime (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

(transitive) To kill as part of a series of murders.


death threat

A threat to kill another person or a group of people.


NSNW

non-strategic nuclear weapon
w:non-strategic nuclear weapon

Initialism of non-strategic nuclear weapon.


EPW

earth-penetrating weapon
w:earth-penetrating weapon


TNW

tactical nuclear weapon
w:tactical nuclear weapon


Y-Day

unconditional surrender
unconditional surrender

(historical) 1 March 1946, the planned date for the Allied invasion of the Kantō Plain to conquer Tokyo in World War II (cancelled following Japan's unconditional surrender in September 1945).


Good Luck Flag

A World War II-era Japanese flag on which is written messages of support for servicemen.


February strike

From February + strike, a calque of Dutch Februaristaking.

(historical, politics) A general strike in the German-occupied Netherlands in 1941, during World War II.


rebel yell

en-noun

rebel yell (countable and uncountable, plural rebel yells)

A cry used by Confederate troops in the American Civil War, to intimidate Union troops.


predetonation

predetonation (countable and uncountable, plural predetonations)

When a nuclear bomb fails to produce full yield, due to the chain reaction starting prematurely, before the system is at optimum criticality.


insertion time

insertion time (countable and uncountable, plural insertion times)

(nuclear physics) The length of time which is required to rearrange a subcritical mass of fissile material into a prompt critical mass.


Rzhev Meat Grinder

(historical, World War II, slang) The Battles of Rzhev.


rough ride

This protocol was put into place to address an informal police policy known as “rough rides.” A rough ride is a form of police brutality where handcuffed individuals are placed in transport vans without being secured by a seatbelt while an officer drives erratically. Rough rides in the Baltimore Police Department have resulted in severe injuries, including paralysis ([…]).

2017 May 12, Gina Robertiello, The Use and Abuse of Police Power in America: Historical Milestones and Current Controversies, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 301:

(slang) The practice of not applying a seat belt to a handcuffed detainee in a transport vehicle before driving erratically, causing that detainee to be violently shaken about.


Hitler's buzzsaw

Hitler's buzzsaw (plural Hitler's buzzsaws)

(military, World War II, slang) The MG 42 machine gun.


if it bleeds, it leads

(journalism, colloquial) Sensational, violent stories are to be prioritized.


child marriage

child marriage (countable and uncountable, plural child marriages)

The marriage or cohabitation between a minor and an adult or another minor.


Sook Ching

Borrowed from Cantonese 肅清／肃清 (suk1 cing1).

(Singapore, historical) the systematic massacre of Singaporean Chinese by Japanese occupation forces from 18 February to 4 March 1942


Desert Fox

Possibly a calque of German Wüstenfuchs, in reference to the terrain in which the North African campaign was fought, and the popular conception of the slyness of the fox. Not clear whether it was coined in British or German media first, as the respective term arose in each language near-simultaneously.

(historical) Erwin Rommel; a German field marshal and tank commander during World War II.


bake someone's bread

en-verb

bake someone's bread (third-person singular simple present bakes someone's bread, present participle baking someone's bread, simple past and past participle baked someone's bread)

bakes someone's bread (present singular third-person)
baking someone's bread (participle present)
baked someone's bread (participle past)
baked someone's bread (past)

(dated, rare) To kill or murder someone.


murder-for-hire

en-noun

murder-for-hire (plural murder-for-hires or murders-for-hire)

murder-for-hires (plural)
murders-for-hire (plural)

contract killing
contract killing#English


vitriolage

Borrowed from French vitriolage. Analyzable as vitriol (“sulfuric acid”) + -age.

Going by newspaper reports, vitriolage is a fairly common crime in India, though it is regarded as a serious offence (grievous hurt), and carries stiff punishment.

1995, V.V. Pillay, Modern Medical Toxicology, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, →ISBN, page 43:

The act of vitriolizing someone; the act of committing an acid attack.


coercive control

coercive control (countable and uncountable, plural coercive controls)

(countable, uncountable) Behavior used by an abusive person to gain and/or maintain control over another person.


FECOMZ

Forward Echelon, Communications Zone
w:FECOMZ

(military, historical) Abbreviation of Forward Echelon, Communications Zone.


drunkard's cloak

drunkard's cloak (plural drunkard's cloaks)

(historical) A portable pillory in the form of a barrel with holes for the imprisoned person's head and arms to pass through.


REL

Russo-European Laika
Russo-European Laika#English


Jellicoe

John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, a British admiral in the First World War.


Konfrontasi

Unadapted borrowing from Indonesian konfrontasi, from Dutch confrontatie.

unadapted borrowing

Five Power Defence Arrangements
Five Power Defence Arrangements

(Southeast Asia, historical) the armed conflict fought between Indonesia and British-backed Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) from 1963 to 1969 in response to the British allies formation of Federation of Malaysia (conclusion of British Malaya, British Sarawak, British North Borneo, and British Singapore)


child abuser

(criminology) A person guilty of child abuse; someone who has abused a minor.


prisoner swap

A deal between opposing sides in a conflict, in which each side agrees to release prisoners.


Iraqnam

Remember how the US troops were told that after the “Shock and Awe” knockout blow and the Iraqis welcomed them in with open arms, they would largely all be off home by the 4th July! Well, welcome to IraqNam.

2003 September 20, Paul Shallard, “Feedback: Comment on A sad case of schadenfreude by Andrew Gimson (13/09/2003)”, in The Spectator:

It was one of the worst days of my life, as I had to admit that Vietnam had been a waste. When the Iraq war began, it became evident to me that it was going to be an IRAQNAM—as mismanaged as Vietnam had been or worse.

2006, Jerry Autry, “Preface”, in Gun-Totin' Chaplain: A True Memoir, San Francisco, CA: Airborne Press, →ISBN, page xiii:

Now can we leave IraqNam and Afghanistan? We pissed away billions to support US oil fascism, and ruined our nation's reputation in so-doing. Meanwhile, record numbers of homeless people and families, undernourished children, and failling^([sic]) young people grow, even as we pump up the BS for BC's version of the Olympic Follies.

2008 November, Joseph E Fasciani, “Letters to the editor: Ruined reputation”, in Common Ground, number 208, →ISSN, page 10:

Aided by our Uncle Toms—Brokaw and Hanks—the rich, who had not served in the first quagmire because they had other priorities, grew nostalgic for those so-called greatest generation wars. When attacked in 2001, we were pumped up and ready. We gave ourselves rhetorical goose bumps about freedom goose-stepping. Iraqnam.

2009, Kate Clinton, I Told You So, Boston, MA: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 58:

(often derogatory) The country of Iraq during the Iraq War (2003–2011) that began with a controversial invasion by a United States-led coalition, seen as analogous to the Vietnam War (1955–1975) which was also marked by American military involvement.


warism

The book opens with an examination of warism, the uncritical presumption that war is morally justified, even morally required.

1991, Patrick G. Coy, Review of From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum, by D. L. Cady. International Social Science Review, 66(4),, page 185:

He argues that in our own contemporary Western culture, warism is a dominant outlook.

2016, Michaeleen Kelly, "Just War Theory as Ideological and Combatant Role Confusion," International Journal of Peace Studies 21(2):

Belief that war is justifiable in principle and can be justified in actual cases.


banzai charge

From banzai + charge. "Banzai" from Japanese 天皇陛下万歳 (Tennō Heika banzai, “long live His Imperial Majesty”), a common battle cry used by Japanese soldiers.

der

(historical, military) A human-wave suicide attack performed by Japanese soldiers during World War II.


General Government

Calque of German Generalgouvernement. Strictly a mistranslation, because German Gouvernement (at least in this context) means governorate, not government.

(historical) an occupation zone established by Nazi Germany in parts of Poland (including areas that are now part of Ukraine)


Eighth Route Army

Chinese Communist Party
Chinese Communist Party

(historical, military) a group army under the command of the Chinese Communist Party that fought the Japanese military and its puppet armies in both conventional and guerrilla warfare during the Second Sino-Japanese War.


Fort Sumter

A fort off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. The American Civil War started there on April 12, 1861.


Kitchener bun

A World War One rebranding exercise of the berliner/Berliner (“jelly donut”) to avoid its association with Berlin, Germany. Named after British General Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

named-after

(Australia, obsolete, World War I) Synonym of berliner (“filled pastry”)


gun-type

Of a nuclear bomb: using the gun method of assembly (see gun-type bomb)


Confederado

A Confederate expatriate who fled the southern United States for Brazil during Reconstruction; or a descendant of such a person.


supergrade

Of plutonium: containing a very small portion of isotopes other than plutonium-239 (especially plutonium-240) (usually less than perhaps 3%), making the plutonium especially suitable for nuclear weapons


nuclear explosion

en-noun

nuclear explosion (plural nuclear explosions)


nuclear fallout

nuclear fallout (countable and uncountable, plural nuclear fallouts)

In reference to such material falling out of the sky.

(uncountable) Residual radioactive material in the upper atmosphere which settles down to Earth over a protracted period; typically ash which has been propelled upwards by a nuclear explosion or disaster, sometimes mixed with rain or snow.

تَهَاطُل نَوَوِيّ

radioactive material in the atmosphere which settles down to Earth


baka bomb

(military, slang, historical) The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a rocket-powered, human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft employed by Japan against Allied ships towards the end of the Pacific War.


zero line

Outside of the main roads and major cities, life in small-town Ukraine rides a razor's edge on the “zero line” where two armies collide.

2023 March 18, “The Forgotten Villages of Ukraine's 'Zero Line'”, in Rolling Stone:

Half an hour's drive from the zero line, an unassuming village house marks an important landmark for those unfortunate enough to need to […]

2023 April 11, “'They crawl forward 24/7:' On the zero line with Ukrainian infantry north of Bakhmut”, in The Kyiv Independent:

The very front of the front line, where opposing armed forces meet and engage in direct combat, especially the border between (US forces in) Afghanistan and Pakistan, or between Ukrainian and Russian forces.


shell hunger

Prior to the war, for instance, Russia's total production of machinery of all kinds met less than 50 percent of the empire's internal demand. [...] The deleterious result was the great "shell hunger" of 1915, the German conquest of Poland, Livonia, and[…]

2000 January 1, J. M. Winter, Geoffrey Parker, Mary Ruth Habeck, Mary R. Habeck, Professor Jay Winter, The Great War and the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 39:

The weapon plants of the German Empire succeed in overcoming the shell hunger faster than the others. The photo shows a Russian artillery battery[…]

2021 October 29, Rem Word, Revolutionary. Frame by frame, Litres, →ISBN:

It [the Ukrainian government] also said that Russian forces appeared to have plenty of munitions, deviating from a “shell hunger,” or lack of ammo supplies, preciously reported by the Russian private military group Wagner.

2023 April 18, Olga Voitovych, Ukrainian commander says Russians "unsuccessful" in most areas of frontline, CNN:

A shortage of ammunition, particularly artillery shells.


Maginot Line

Named after French Minister of War André Maginot.

named-after

(historical) A line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany.


drop acid, not bombs

Originally coined in the late 1960s by those who opposed the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.

A hippie anti-war slogan encouraging LSD use.


SADM

Special Atomic Demolition Munition
w:Special Atomic Demolition Munition

Initialism of Special Atomic Demolition Munition.


backpack nuke

The Pentagon may have the solution—the Backpack Nuke. Yes, campers, the largest hiking club in the western world—the U.S. Army—is now equipped with small, portable, lightweight nuclear devices that are guaranteed to clear any campground in microseconds.

1985 May, Eric Pearlman, “Things to Come”, in Backpacker, volume 13, number 68, →ISSN, page 104:


suitcase nuke

Tactical nuclear weapons, known as “suitcase nukes”, are smaller than strategic ones and can be deployed at short range for battlefield use, though Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus's strongman leader, said this week that the warheads were three times more powerful than the bombs the US dropped on Japan during the second world war.

[2023 June 17, Max Seddon, “Nuclear arms sent to Belarus, says Putin”, in FT Weekend, page 2:


Kadyrovite

en-noun

Kadyrovite (plural Kadyrovites or Kadyrovtsy)

Kadyrovites (plural)
Kadyrovtsy (plural)

From Kadyrov + -ite, a calque of Russian кадыровец (kadyrovec), from Кадыров (Kadyrov) + -ец (-ec, “person associated with”).

suffix

"We are well aware of the special operation that was to take place directly by the Kadyrovites to eliminate our president. And I can say that we have received information from the FSB, who today do not want to take part in this bloody war," Danilov said. "And thanks to this, the Kadyrov elite group was destroyed, which came here to eliminate our president."

2022 March 2, Brigid Kennedy, “Ukraine reportedly foiled a Zelensky assassination plot after a tipoff from Russian authorities”, in The Week:

Most of the Russian servicemen sitting in and atop 34 armed personnel carriers that rolled into Bucha on February 27 were ethnic Chechens, according to Ukrainian military leaders and government officials. Bearded and burly, clad in brand new, perfectly fitting uniforms and toting assault rifles, they hoped to whiz through the leafy suburb northwest of Kyiv to enter the Ukrainian capital on the war’s third day. They are known as “Kadyrovtsy” or “Kadyrovites” after their leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s pro-Kremlin strongman, and their reputation preceded them.

[2022 August 18, Mansur Mirovalev, “The real role of pro-Russian Chechens in Ukraine”, in Al Jazeera:

"The claimed return of Chechen forces to offensive operations would break Kadyrovites from a nearly yearlong hiatus from participating in high-intensity combat operations," the ISW wrote, noting Kadyrov's troops "have been largely operating in the rear after participating in the battles for Mariupol, Severodonetsk, and Lysychansk.

2023 June 1, David Brennan, “Why Chechens Can't Replace Wagner in Ukraine”, in Newsweek:

A member of the 141st Special Motorized Regiment, or any other formation subordinate to Ramzan Kadyrov.


Grand Army of the Republic

(now historical) An organization for veterans of the US Army, Navy and Marines who served in the American Civil War.


transgendercide

en-noun

transgendercide (usually uncountable, plural not attested)

From transgender + -cide, by analogy with genocide, homicide, femicide, etc. In some uses, a calque of Spanish travesticidio (“travesticide”).

cal

[see title]

2015 March 11, Erick Chavarria, “Oakland Voices: Transgendercide of women of color drives young trans woman to take her own life”, in Daily Democrat:

At the march, protesters held handmade signs denouncing the murder of Ms. Sacayán, 40, one of the most prominent transgender activists in Argentina. She led a group that fights discrimination against transgender people and was a regional representative of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. On the street, someone had stenciled graffiti that read, “Basta de travesticidios,” or “Enough transgendercide.”

2015 November 29, Jonathan Gilbert, “Transgender Argentines Confront Continued Murder and Discrimination”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-07:

This article has exposed how the transdanger presence in the performing arts in Brazil is more than just a new aesthetic form, but a necessary political turn in favour of protecting transgender people from unbridled transgendercide.

2021 October, Dodi T. B. Leal, “Gender in Danger: Transdanger People in Performing Arts in Brazil”, in Theatre Research International, volume 46, number 3, →DOI, pages 404–405:

(rare, nonce word) The killing of a transgender person or transgender people collectively because of their gender, especially when motivated by transphobia.


captive nation

Almost from the moment the Soviet empire swallowed the captive nations, the fight against it began.

1989 November 21, A[braham] M[ichael] Rosenthal, “ON MY MIND; Helping the Revolution”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-19:

Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump claimed that "socialism is dying" and described Cuba as a "captive nation." But Cuban officials framed voting yes to the constitution as a matter of patriotism.

2019 February 25, Euan McKirdy, “Cubans overwhelmingly vote in favor of new constitution”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2022-10-12:

When the moment struck in the late 1980s as the Soviet Union started to collapse, nonviolent resistance to Communist rule forced the Soviets out, freeing the captive nations without a shot fired.

2021 June 24, Henry Olsen, “Opinion: The U.S. can’t save Hong Kong. But it must keep the spirit of freedom alive.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-18:

(US, politics, chiefly historical) A country under the control of a Communist regime (especially the Soviet Union).


Barbenheimer

Though unions with workers in digital media or with companies that offer online shopping have invoked the idea of a digital picket line, the actors’ and writers’ unions have not called on consumers to stop watching television and movies on streaming services or to cancel their “Barbenheimer” tickets.

2023 July 19, Claire Moses, “Can I Watch ‘Barbenheimer’ Despite the Hollywood Strikes?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

(humorous, neologism) The simultaneous theatrical release on July 21, 2023 of two blockbuster films of contrasting genres: Barbie, a fantasy comedy about the eponymous fashion doll, and Oppenheimer, a biographical thriller about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.


Brylcreem Boy

From the hair-styling product Brylcreem.

Billy Haldane, Ursula's handsome, debonair father, was a 'Brylcreem Boy,' a Royal Air Force officer.

2011, D. B. Reynolds, Loving and Writing, Writing and Loving, page 102:

Why, just the other day, I read about an RAF chap who went from being a Brylcreem Boy to burned beyond recognition. Now he's been wed to the gorgeous daughter of a high commander, Lord Hoity Toity somebody or other, […]

2015, Laurel Deedrick-Mayne, A Wake For The Dreamland, page 118:

(slang, World War II, historical) A member of the Royal Air Force


battered child syndrome

shaken baby syndrome
shaken baby syndrome#English


honor killer

(US) Alternative spelling of honour killer


Peace Democrat

(US politics, historical) Synonym of Copperhead (“a northerner who sympathized with the South or wanted to end hostilities during the American Civil War”)


Battle of the Beams

(historical) A period early in World War II when Luftwaffe bombers used a number of increasingly accurate radionavigation systems for night bombing in Britain, which fought back with a variety of increasingly effective means involving jamming and deception signals.


shooting and crying

Calque of Hebrew יוֹרִים וּבוֹכִים (yorim ve bochim).

יוֹרִים וּבוֹכִים

(derogatory) A genre of war film in which soldiers are depicted showing remorse or grief while simultaneously committing acts of violence, particularly associated with the depictions of the Israel Defense Forces.


dirty war

(historical) A conflict (particularly one in South America) between a dictatorship against leftist revolutionaries or activists, typically characterized by extrajudicial repression like kidnapping, torture and enforced disappearance.

guerre sale

conflict characterized by extrajudicial repression


Doomsday Clock

A symbol in the form of a clock, representing the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Its hands are moved backward or forward in response to world events, with midnight representing the onset of catastrophe.


Antietam Creek

A tributary of the Potomac River in south central Pennsylvania and western Maryland in the United States, known as the site of a battle in the American Civil War, the Battle of Antietam.


prisoner exchange

en-noun

prisoner exchange (plural prisoner exchanges)


Yezhov

A surname from Russian; especially when referring to Nikolai Yezhov, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.


Beria

Borrowed from Russian Берия (Berija), ultimately from Mingrelian ბერია (beria).

A surname from Mingrelian; especially when referring to Lavrentiy Beria, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.


bunk lizard

(US, military slang, World War I– World War II) A soldier who relishes his bed.


canteen lizard

(US military slang, World War I) A soldier who relishes eating out or working in kitchens in the rear.


zigzig

(US military slang, World War I– World War II) Sexual intercourse.


tin dip

(military slang, World War I) A tin hat.


war baby

(US military slang, World War I) An officer owing his position to the need of the time rather than competence.


nailkeg

(World War I military slang) A shrapnel shell.


mud-hogs

(World War I miltary slang) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:


bloodspiller

But I maun hear naething about honour—we ken naething here but about credit. Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent, honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 271:

I reckon to rush them right out of the way with a charge, firing our Winchesters, and yelling ‘Muerto, filhos de Vittorio!’ for they are of that old sinner’s ancient crew—‘Death to the Apash bloodspillers!’

[19--?], Clarence E[verly] Ray, “The Sand Monuments”, in The Oklahoma Bandits: The Daltons and Their Desperate Gang (Wild West Series; 15), Chicago, Ill.: Regan Publishing Corporation […], →OCLC, page 70:

Back in the day, Marquez remembered, the Archangel Crips had been as hard as they come, big bailers and broad-daylight bloodspillers, the kind of game you brought in tied spread-eagle to the hood of your black-and-white with sirens wailing—a Frank Buck parade through the hood on your way back to the station—letting the Waziri know you had their backs.

2006, Will Beall, L.A. Rex, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 141:

The old man had style, making up his own laws, and decreeing who lived and who died. But they were his laws and his words and his melodrama, and without that murderous bunch of bloodspillers he bribed into following him, he wasnt^([sic]) much more than a squeaky mouse.

2015, Dan Williams, chapter 24, in The Lords of Absence, Temple, Tex., Dallas, Tex.: Ink Brush Press, →ISBN, page 108:


line shooting

Authentic RAF line shooting of that time was a form of jocular boasting which nobody was expected to believe[.]

1978, Hugh Verity, We landed by moonlight, Manchester: Crécy Publishing, →ISBN, page 131:

(World War II, RAF, slang) Exaggerated or boastful stories; showing off.


OVRA

Borrowed from Italian OVRA with unknown full form. Speculated by some as initialism of Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo (Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism).

initialism

(history) The secret police of Fascist Italy active from 1927 to 1945.


goretastic

en-adj

goretastic (comparative more goretastic, superlative most goretastic)

more goretastic (comparative)
most goretastic (superlative)

[…]the winner of which will get a role in Lionsgate’s “Saw VI,” the next installment of the goretastic Halloween horror movie franchise that has earned almost $300 million at the box office.

2008 November 15, Billboard, volume 120, number 46, →ISSN, page 26:

These goretastic good-ole-boys unloaded with a sadistic glee; they shot up that poor old car with a real joyful vigor.

2020, Jonny Ross, Envy the Dead, Dorrance Publishing Company Inc., →ISBN:

The chainsaws are goretastic, but that’s what’s so cool about him.

2022, Tatsuki Fujimoto, “デンジドリーム [Denji Dorīmu]”, in チェンソーマン [Chensō Man], volume 11, Shueisha Inc.; republished as “Chapter 103: Denji Dream”, in Amanda Haley, transl., Chainsaw Man, San Francisco, CA: Viz Media, 2023 October, →ISBN, page 174:

(rare) Something that is fantastic with or due to an excessive amount of gore.


torturemeister

Alternative spelling of torture-meister.


torture-meister

The torture-meister relishing
Intimidating everything

1984, J. G. Thirlwell (lyrics and music), “Sick Man”, in Hole, performed by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel:

One who is skilled in the art of torture.


Spanish-American War

United States of America
United States of America

(historical) A military conflict in the year 1898, fought between the United States of America and Spain


Mexican War

Mexican-American War
Mexican-American War#English

Alternative form of Mexican-American War


Mexican-American War

(historical) A military conflict in the years 1846 to 1848, fought between the United States of America and Mexico


Wars of the Roses

the Wars of the Roses (canonical plural)

After the symbols of the two sides: the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York

(historical) A civil war that lasted from 1455 to 1487, fought between the English houses of Lancaster and York and allies in France, Burgundy and Scotland.


Confederate flag

en-noun

Confederate flag (plural Confederate flags)

The Stars and Bars, the official Confederate flag.


Western Bloc

Coordinate term: Eastern Bloc

(geopolitics, historical) The noncommunist nations of Europe and America.


hell from above

From hell + from + above. Possibly first inspired from a bombardment of arrows, similar archery or artillery.

(idiomatic) A powerful bombardment of projectiles from above, especially in the context of war.


Andersonville

Andersonville Prison, a POW camp in Georgia, during the American Civil War.


Antietam

The Battle of Antietam, in the American Civil War, on Sept. 17, 1862.


Southern Unionist

Southern Unionist (plural Southern Unionists)

In the American Civil War, a (presumably White) Southerner who favored preserving the Union.

Andrew Johnson
President of the United States


thermonuclear war

thermonuclear war (countable and uncountable, plural thermonuclear wars)

A nuclear war, assuming at least some of the bombs are thermonuclear.


Battle of Okinawa

(historical, World War II) A major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army in 1945.


human wave

human wave tactics

human wave assault

The generals relied on costly human waves to make tiny conquests that they could sell to politicians and the population.

a frontal assault by unprotected densely concentrated infantry against the enemy line


war of religion

war of religion (plural wars of religion)

A war which is primarily caused or justified by differences in religion and beliefs.


Utah Beach

Likely coined in 1944 by American general Omar Bradley.

The farthest west of the five D-Day beaches, Utah Beach was quickly conquered by American soldiers who then pushed inland to the central square of Ste.-Marie-du-Mont, where American paratroopers — dropped in the night by plane — were already battling German soldiers.

2023 June 6, Catherine Porter, “D-Day’s Historic Beaches Face a New Onslaught: Rising Seas”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-06:

The westernmost amphibious invasion zone in coastal Normandy during the D-Day invasions.


Omaha Beach

Eventually, Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy in the early hours of 6 June 1944 - a day recorded in the history books as D-Day. Taken by surprise, the Germans were overwhelmed. But although the first phase of the operation passed off without major Allied losses, the Omaha Beach landings soon turned into a disaster. Despite leadership errors and fewer men, the German army displayed unexpected combative spirit. Logistics were also hampered by the poor weather conditions and the arrival of reinforcements was delayed. Despite their material and numerical superiority, the Allies suffered heavy losses and it took them more than two months to break through the German defense.

2024 May 27, “D-Day and the Tremendous Cost of Victory”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2024-06-08, History:

An amphibious invasion zone in coastal Normandy during the D-Day invasions.


Grand Alliance

(World War II) A military alliance consisting of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom.


catch a body

en-verb

catch a body (third-person singular simple present catches a body, present participle catching a body, simple past and past participle caught a body)

catches a body (present singular third-person)
catching a body (participle present)
caught a body (participle past)
caught a body (past)

Niggas be runnin' through the block shootin'
Time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for Houston

1994, Nas (lyrics and music), “N.Y. State of Mind”, in Illmatic:

Mo' money, mo' murder, mo' homicide
You catch that body, nigga? Better have that alibi
You never know, it might just be your time, you take your ride
To them pearly white gates, watch that suicide

1995, AZ featuring Nas (lyrics and music), “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Murder (Homicide)”, in Doe or Die:

(slang, idiomatic, intransitive) to kill, to murder


Dirty War

(historical) The period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor.


nuclear umbrella

en-noun

nuclear umbrella (countable and uncountable, plural nuclear umbrellas)

A guarantee by a nuclear weapons state to defend a non-nuclear allied state.


Van Dorn battle flag

Van Dorn battle flag (plural Van Dorn battle flags)

Named after American major general Earl Van Dorn (1820–1863).

named-after

The Van Dorn battle flag had a red field adorned with thirteen white stars arranged in five rows, with a white crescent in the upper corner. The flags were bordered in yellow or white.

1989 January 1, Devereaux D. Cannon, The Flags of the Confederacy: An Illustrated History, St. Lukes Broadfoot Publishers, →ISBN, page 63:

The Van Dorn battle flag, as it came to be called, was a red rectangle bordered in yellow on three sides. Thirteen stars were scattered across the field, and in the upper left was a white crescent symbolizing Missouri.

2001 December 10, Robert Maberry Jr., Texas Flags, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 91:

The flag of the 4th Missouri Infantry, which may be one of the earliest examples of a Van Dorn battle flag.

2018 January 17, Sarah Laskow, “The Museum That Keeps Now-Obscure Confederate Flags”, in Atlas Obscura, archived from the original on 2023-09-25:

(rare) A flag utilized by the regiments under the command of the Confederate major general Earl Van Dorn during the American Civil War.

15th (Northwest) Arkansas Infantry Regiment

4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate)