weapon

An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.

Noun

  1. 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.
    • 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...

    Synonyms: arm

    Hypernyms: tool instrument

  2. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
    • 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...
    • 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. - 2011 January 15, Phil Dawkes, “Stoke 2-0 Bolton”, in BBC:
  3. A tool of any kind.
    • Choose your weapon.
  4. An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.

    Synonyms: moron arse

  5. 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. - 2006 May 12, Joshua...
    • 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. - 2016 November 21, Marcus Tamp,...
    • 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. - 2020 October 5, Alley Pascoe, “Megan...

    Synonyms: legend champion unit

  6. 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 -...
    • 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 - 2017 April 13, Mavado, “Ride All Night (My Kinda Girl)” (in Jamaican Creole):
    • 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 - 2019 February 14, “Jimmy Neutron” (track 4), in NQTATS aka CAVIN KON (lyrics), A...

    Synonyms: danger zone down there genital organs genitalia genitals genitors intimate parts junk nethers no-no spot pee-pee private parts privates pudenda reproductive organs sex organs sweet spot undercarriage underparts weapon wee-wee

Origin

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”).

Forms

weapons

Synonyms

weapon arm armament

Hypernyms

artifact

Hyponyms

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Related

:Category:Weapons

Derived

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Verb

  1. 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...

Forms

weapons weaponing weaponed