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Definition of Dumdums
1. dumdum [n] - See also: dumdum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumdums
Literary usage of Dumdums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences: Translation of the Official by James Brown Scott (1920)
"Sir JOHN ARDAGH (England) said that there must be a misunderstanding, seeing that
dumdums are balls like any other ordinary projectiles. ..."
2. Colours of War by Robert Edward Crozier Long (1915)
"We took the rifles to a quarry pit, and fired dumdums and explosives into a beam.
The dumdums made a clean entry and a ragged exit; the explosives made a ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"... with the aeroplane, il Cur Opinion 59:252-3 O '15 High-speed bullets and dumdums.
Sci Am S 79:304 My 8 '15 High speed bullets and what they do. ..."
4. Brave Belgians by Camille Buffin, Alice Hall Ward (1918)
"... was not long in replying with dumdums, destroying our embattlement over which
were the upper sacks of the parapet. On the other side of the Yser in the ..."
5. Report of the Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration (1914)
"Even in the Balkan war, cholera and other preventable diseases killed more than
shrapnel and dumdums and human butchers. This enemy is not to be conquered ..."
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