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to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials)
HSK 5
bomb / CL: , 顆|颗
HSK 6
flexibility / elasticity
HSK 7-9
(guided) missile / CL:
HSK 7-9
to budge
HSK 7-9
to bounce / to bounce back / to boomerang / to ricochet / rebound (of stock market etc) / bounce / backlash / negative repercussions
HSK 7-9
(of sth that has been deformed) to spring back to original shape / (fig.) to rebound / to bounce back
(of a food's mouthfeel) springy / firm / al dente
nuclear warhead
to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument
elasticity / elastic force / spring / rebound / bounce
Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb
warhead
to get hit by a bullet; to get shot
trajectory (of a projectile); ballistic curve
ammunition
a marble (used in games)
to sing and play (plucked string instrument)
to play marbles
bullet
to catapult / to launch / to eject (from a plane) / to shoot
to snap one's fingers / (fig.) in a flash; in an instant
pellet
catapult / slingshot
hand grenade
to impeach (an official)
ammunition clip; cartridge clip; magazine
bulletproof
shrapnel; shell fragment
plectrum
shot (for a shotgun); canister shot
artillery shell / CL:
ammunition case
high explosive shell / grenade
to play (musical instrument, esp. string)
H-bomb / hydrogen bomb
slingshot pellet / playing marbles / billiards / CL: , 顆|颗
towrope
rocket (artillery)
to talk nonsense / to behave like a fool
(Tw) missile / stray bullet
live ammunition
bullet hole / shell hole
suicide attacker; suicide bomber / voluptuous woman; muscular man
hail of bullets
bomb crater; shell crater; mine crater
stray bullet
pingtan, a traditional Suzhou narrative art that combines storytelling and ballad singing, typically performed by two artists / also used as a collective term for 評話|评话 (spoken storytelling) and 彈詞|弹词 (sung storytelling)
to suppress / to quell (a disturbance) / repression
(idiom) tiny speck of land; small area
lit. to flick dust off sb's cap (idiom); to celebrate an official appointment / to congratulate and celebrate (promotion, graduation etc)
tracer ammunition / tracer
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head
(idiom) armed / carrying a loaded firearm
sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences (abbr. for 糖衣炮彈|糖衣炮弹)
(loanword) dumdum bullet; expanding bullet
to play the same old tune (idiom); unoriginal
tear bomb / tear-gas grenade
a snap of the fingers (idiom); in a flash / in the twinkling of an eye
replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff
(military) cluster bomb / shrapnel
mudskipper (amphibious fish)
al dente
Gundam, Japanese animation franchise
to eject / to exit from / to pop up
to rebound
napalm
to accuse / to impeach
to cluck / to trill
intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM
hard to play (of music for stringed instrument)
depth charge
to jam (rifle)
(fig.) sth that produces shockwaves / bombshell (revelation) / blockbuster (product)
cruise missile
accuse and criticize
to soften cotton fiber by fluffing
flexible
ejection capsule (cabin)
dirty bomb
atomic bomb; A-bomb
time bomb
ballistic missile
modulus of elasticity / coefficient of restitution
howitzer
paintball
grenade launcher
fire bomb / incendiary device
ball (in sport, incl. billiards)
pinball
ricochet
bungee jumping (Tw)
bulletproof vest
cluster bomb
payload
shrapnel shell / shrapnel / also pr. [liu2 san3 dan4]
rifle grenade
poison gas shell / poison gas grenade
ground-to-air missile

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