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Example sentences for: torpedo
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They wanna torpedo my agenda
I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.
It's a torpedo bomber.
If you join the Old Guard aboard the "torpedo Content before anyone's even read the piece in question" bandwagon, it's less salutary for you.
The episode only ended when the sailor, who had locked himself in one of the vessel's torpedo bays, killed himself.