tracer bullet

1. 1.

   ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke

   Synonymstracer

   Broaderammunition

Questions about tracer bullet

What does tracer bullet mean?

tracer bullet means "ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke".

What is another word for tracer bullet?

Close synonyms include tracer. 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 tracer bullet a common word?

tracer 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.