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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 a food's mouthfeel) springy / firm / al dente
stun grenade / (Tw) (fig.) sth that produces shockwaves / bombshell (revelation) / blockbuster (product)
a marble (used in games)
elasticity / elastic force / spring / rebound / bounce
ammunition
to catapult / to launch / to eject (from a plane) / to shoot
bulletproof
(Tw) missile / stray bullet
hand grenade
H-bomb / hydrogen bomb
warhead
(military) cluster bomb / shrapnel
atomic bomb; A-bomb
to snap one's fingers / (fig.) in a flash; in an instant
to play (musical instrument, esp. string)
to be unable to move a single step
ammunition clip; cartridge clip; magazine
bungee jumping (Tw)
magazine (for ammunition)
to pluck (a string)
high explosive shell / grenade
time bomb
to sing and play (plucked string instrument)
trajectory (of a projectile); ballistic curve
ammunition dump
pellet
ballistic missile
sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences
(idiom) armed / carrying a loaded firearm
(idiom) tiny speck of land; small area
to suppress / to quell (a disturbance) / repression
(idiom) in a flash; instantly
to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument
howitzer
real men do not easily cry (idiom)
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
poison gas shell / poison gas grenade
nuclear missile
to play the same old tune (idiom); unoriginal
hail of bullets
fire bomb / incendiary device
intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM
to play marbles
flick knife / switchblade / spring-loaded knife
nuclear reentry vehicle / nuclear warhead
bomb crater; shell crater; mine crater
modulus of elasticity / coefficient of restitution
smoke bomb
long distance missile
to get hit by a bullet; to get shot
mudskipper (amphibious fish)
air-to-air missile
swing door
ballad tune in southern dialects, usually to sanxian 三弦 or pipa 琵琶 accompaniment
bullet hole
depth charge
spring balance
payload
plucked string instrument / CL:
to talk nonsense / to behave like a fool
out of ammunition and no hope of reinforcements (idiom); in desperate straits
stray bullet
lit. to flick dust off sb's cap (idiom); to celebrate an official appointment / to congratulate and celebrate (promotion, graduation etc)
ground-to-air missile
tracer ammunition / tracer
al dente
suicide attacker; suicide bomber / voluptuous woman; muscular man
to censure / to denounce / to impeach
(loanword) dumdum bullet; expanding bullet
ricochet
napalm
incendiary bomb
replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff
rocket (artillery)
bullet hole / shell hole
rifle grenade
bulletproof vest
pachinko machine
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)
barrage (military) / "bullet screen", function which allows viewers to post on-screen comments in videos, movies etc in real time / danmaku (video game subgenre)
to eject / to exit from / to pop up
pop-up window (computing)
shrapnel shell / shrapnel / also pr. [liu2 san3 dan4]
foxhole
stun grenade
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 charge (ammunition into gun) / to load
to cluck / to trill
to jam (rifle)
flexible
anti-missile
to accuse / to impeach
paintball (sports)

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