weapon
B1Meanings
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noun
any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
I am licensed to carry a weapon.
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2
noun
a means of persuading or arguing
They used all their conversational weapons.
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3
noun
An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon.
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4
noun
An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs.
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noun
A tool of any kind.
Choose your weapon.
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noun
A very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.
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.
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noun
The human genitals.
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
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verb
To equip with a weapon; to arm.
[…] 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, […]
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 lan…