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weapon

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • Canada//ˈwɛp.ən//
  • Australia//ˈwep.ən//
  • //ˈwiːp.ən//

An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.

noun

  1. 1

    An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.

    The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon.

    Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.

  2. 2

    An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.

    Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs.

    “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

    Rory Delap's long throw-ins are a familiar weapon to the Potters' opponents but this does not make them any easier to defend against.

  3. 3

    informalA tool of any kind.

    Choose your weapon.

  4. 4

    slangAn idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.

  5. 5

    slangA very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.

    It has a whopping 5.4-litre V8, with a supercharger bolted to the top of it to help low-end pulling power. In short, it's a weapon and will happily dust a Porsche as easy as brushing your teeth.

    We played Endless Heights' record release show earlier this year and during their set Christian from Endless Heights' lung collapsed, but he finished the set like an absolute weapon.

    I adore her in Easter Parade and Meet Me in St. Louis, but my favourite performance of hers is her concert at [New York’s] Carnegie Hall. She’s a total weapon on that stage.

    American teenager Caroline Marks was trotting across the sand on her dream day at North Narrabeen when Luke Egan called out to her: "You weapon!" [...] Egan was mentoring Marks in between commentary stints. He was one of the people to chair the weapon up the beach, calling out to her: "What did I tell you!"

  6. 6

    rareThe human genitals.

    Young motherfucking legend, niggas just pretending I spit my shit, infectious, don't come in my section Or get wet bitch with that weapon Lift the pussy, yeah I bench press it, and I been stressing since a adolescent

    Weh you get da pussy deh from? Hey, gyal me love you Md love the way you use your weapon Gyal, your pussy tight like a vice grip

    Bring my baby a present Put your head on the dresser She open her legs, then I whip out my weapon Sj immortal, the fuck is checking

    I bust a bitch down in forty-five seconds If it's good, Imma pop two Percs, and come back for seconds She probably got a felony, that's an illegal weapon Stick my whole hand in her pussy, I was tryna stretch it

Etymology

From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wēbnom. Cognates Cognate with Scots weepon (“weapon”), North Frisian woopen (“weapon”), Saterland Frisian Woapen (“weapon”), West Frisian wapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Alemannic German Waaffe (“tool”), Dutch wapen (“weapon”), German Waffe (“weapon”) and Wappen (“coat of arms”), Luxembourgish Waff (“weapon”), Yiddish וואָפֿן (vofn, “weapon”), Danish våben (“weapon; coat of arms”), Faroese vákn, vápn (“weapon; whaling lance”), Icelandic vopn (“weapon”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk våpen (“weapon”), Swedish vapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐍀𐌽 (wēpn, “weapon”).

verb

  1. 1

    To equip with a weapon; to arm.

    […] the friends of the country and of the equal rights of all men, the friends of enfranchising the black man and of weaponing his hand for defense; the friends of taking the governments of these rebel States out of the hands of their rebel possessors, […]

Forms

plural
weapons
past tense
weaponed
past participle
weaponed
present participle
weaponing
third person singular
weapons
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