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Definition of Exocet
1. Noun. A guided missile developed by the French government for use against ships.
Definition of Exocet
1. Noun. A French antiship missile ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exocet
Literary usage of Exocet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. French Security And Defence Policy: Current Developments And Future Prospects by Fredrik Wetterqvist (1990)
"Aerospatiale has sold more than 2800 Exocet anti-ship missiles in all ... The ANS
would be three times faster than the Exocet, reach targets up to 200 km ..."
2. U. S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: With Marine Forces Afloat in edited by Ronald J. Brown (2000)
"About four years earlier, during the Tanker War, the USS Stark (FFG 31) was hit
by two French-made Exocet antiship missiles fired from an Iraqi aircraft. ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"... with it few secondary characteristics ; there are winged mammals, the bats ;
there are flying fish, the exocet.s ; and there once were flying lizards. ..."