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炮
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Definitions
- 1. to sauté
- 2. to fry
- 3. to dry by heating
Words Containing 炮
Salyut (salute), Russian spacecraft series
Taku Forts, maritime defense works in Tianjin dating back to the Ming dynasty, playing a prominent role during the Opium Wars (1839-1860)
artillery cluster bomb
sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences
railgun
artillery bombardment; artillery battle
heavy artillery
(Internet slang) to mouth off
lit. firing after the horse
cannon used for signaling
water cannon
firearm
to talk big
firecracker
cannon fire to hit a mosquito
camera (jocular)
gunner
(Northeastern dialect) simple-minded person
to concoct
cannon (loanword)
gunboat
to butt in
catapult
trunnion
to parch and refine medicinal herbs
(lit.) to fire blank shots
cannon fodder
barrage of gunfire (often used as a metaphor for rapid speech)
gunship
rocket artillery
(coll.) piece of light artillery such as a mortar
curved-fire gun (mortar, howitzer etc)
to bombard
Western (or Western-style) cannon of the Ming era
(idiom) to hit the jackpot with a single shot; to achieve success at one's first try
subwoofer
gunship (aircraft)
to fire a salvo
Taku Forts, maritime defense works in Tianjin dating back to the Ming dynasty, playing a prominent role during the Opium Wars (1839-1860)
lit. to follow the recipe (idiom)
(idiom) flustered
sound of gunfire
to set off fire crackers
recoilless rifle
to fire after the horse has bolted (idiom); to act too late to be effective
field artillery
(slang) effeminate man
to win instant success (idiom)
a drill
gunner
(slang) to have sex outdoors or in a public place
gunship (aircraft)
fort
a short-barreled mortar
gun salute (e.g. 21-gun salute)
gun turret
big gun
firecrackers
the hot pillar (ancient Chinese torture instrument)
machine cannon
howitzer
Paochui - \Three Emperor Cannon Punch\ (Chinese Martial Art)
artillery shell
bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
to open fire with artillery
mortar (weapon)
fuck buddy
cannon
(slang) to hook up for a one night stand
water cannon vehicle, common name for specialized crowd management vehicle 人群管理特別用途車|人群管理特别用途车[rén qún guǎn lǐ tè bié yòng tú chē]
firecracker
(fig.) opening shot
to shell
artillery barrage
anti-aircraft gun
firecrackers set off at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (a Chinese tradition)
to set off firecrackers
to open fire
bird shotgun replaced by cannon (idiom); equipment improved enormously
cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
firecracker