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Brahmaputra River(encyclopedia)

slingshot (iou) and Brahmaputra (iou)


slingshot (iou)



slingshot noun & verb. Orig. US. M19.
[from SLING verb + SHOT noun1.]
A. noun.
A catapult. M19.
A shot (as) from a catapult. M20.
b. Astronautics. The use of the gravitational pull of a celestial body to accelerate and change the course of a spacecraft. Freq. attrib. L20.
b. verb intrans. Infl. -tt-. Move as if from a slingshot; esp. (of a vehicle) accelerate rapidly. colloq. M20.

Brahmaputra (iou)



Brahmaputra noun. Also brahmaputra, Brahmapootra. M19.
[Brahmaputra, a river in Bangladesh and West Bengal.]
A variety of domestic fowl originating in the Indian subcontinent.