weapon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: weapons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: weapons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: weaponing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: weaponed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: weaponed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A tool of any kind.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
informal
examples: Choose your weapon.
gloss: An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
gloss: A very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
examples: 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!"
gloss: The human genitals.
pos: noun
tags: rare
slang
examples: 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
gloss: To equip with a weapon; to arm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] 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, […]
Synonyms: weapon
arm
armament
Related words: :Category:Weapons
Derived words: academic weapon
beweapon
hypersonic weapon
nonweapon
superweaponry
weaponed
weaponeer
weaponization
weaponize
weaponless
weaponlike
weapon oath
weapon of mass disruption
weaponry
weapon-salve
weapons-grade
weaponsmith
weaponsmithing
Assault Weapons Ban
assault with a deadly weapon
nuclear weapons inheritance project
nuclear weapons state
personal defence weapon
secret weapon
weapon-schaw
weapons free
weapons hold
weapons tight
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