attack submarine

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   a military submarine designed and armed to attack enemy shipping

   Broadersubmarine

   military

Questions about attack submarine

What does attack submarine mean?

attack submarine means "a military submarine designed and armed to attack enemy shipping".

Is attack submarine a common word?

attack submarine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.