dumdum bullet

1. 1.

   a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound

   Synonymsdumdum

   Broaderbullet

Questions about dumdum bullet

What does dumdum bullet mean?

dumdum bullet means "a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound".

What is another word for dumdum bullet?

Close synonyms include dumdum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dumdum bullet a common word?

dumdum bullet 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.