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How to pronounce dumdum in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dumdum bullet
Type of bullet, slug

Examples of dumdum

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The fusillade of shotgun pellets and dumdum bullets went on for six minutes.
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Hey dumdum are you buying superman comics every month?
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Rowan is still the smart one, and Martin is correctly addressed as a dingaling, a dumdum and a dodo.
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These projectiles, akin to dumdum bullets, contain a small aluminum canister filled with an explosive compound.
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The Long Beach Review attacked local papers for rejecting an article on the use of dumdum bullets by the city's police.
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Exploding bullets were banned by the St Petersburg Declaration in 1868, and in 1899 the Hague Declaration outlawed expanding dumdum bullets.
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  • A soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound
  • An expanding bullet is a bullet designed to expand on impact, increasing in diameter to limit penetration and/or produce a larger diameter wound. They are also known as a Dum-dum or dumdum bullets. The two typical designs are the hollow point bullet and the soft point bullet.
  • (DumDums) Dum Dum Pop or Dum Dums is a sphere-shaped lollipop named by I.C. Bahr, a Sales Manager at the Akron Candy Company in Bellevue, Ohio, in 1924. In 1953 the Dum Dum Pop was purchased by the Spangler Candy Company and moved manufacturing to Bryan, Ohio. ...
  • (Dumdums) The Dum Dums were a British guitar-pop band. London based, they split up in August 2001. The band members were Josh Doyle - vocals and guitar, Steve Clarke - bass and vocals, Stuart 'Baxter' Wilkinson - drums and vocals.
  • (Dum-Dums) Candy received for answering an I Am A Walrus incorrectly. They help soothe the agony of defeat.