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Definition of Dumdum bullet
1. Noun. A soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumdum Bullet
Literary usage of Dumdum bullet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences: Translation of the Official by James Brown Scott (1920)
"In the dumdum bullet, the jacket leaves a small end of the core uncovered. ...
The wounds made by this dumdum bullet suffice ordinarily to cause a shock ..."
2. International Law Applied to the Russo-Japanese War: With the Decisions of by Sakuyé Takahashi (1908)
"A " dumdum " bullet inflicts a most dangerous wound, and this description of shot
is only used for hunting purposes. The same despatches continue to report ..."
3. Instructions to the American Delegates to the Hague Peace Conferences and by James Brown Scott (1916)
"He ascribed the bad reputation of the dumdum bullet to some experiments made at
Tubingen in Germany with a bullet from the forward part of which the jacket, ..."
4. Modern Surgery, General and Operative: General and Operative by John Chalmers Da Costa (1910)
"It was called a dumdum bullet, because such missiles were first made at ...
When a dumdum bullet strikes, it spreads and expands, or ''mushrooms," and ..."
5. The Two Hague Conferences and Their Contributions to International Law by William Isaac Hull (1908)
""In the dumdum bullet, the jacket leaves a small end of the core uncovered. ...
The wounds made by this dumdum bullet suffice ordinarily to cause a shock ..."
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