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Dumdum bullet   Listen
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Dumdum bullet  n.  (Mil.) A kind of man-stopping bullet, designed to fragment inside the body and thus inflict a severed and painful wound; so named from Dumdum, in India, where bullets are manufactured for the Indian army.






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... contest between the cavalryman and natives, he says: "But alas! in war, as in finance and love, victory does not always smile upon the most deserving. She usually favors the numerically stronger side; that is, unless the less numerous party is armed with quick firing guns, dumdum bullet, and other harmless weapons that Europeans think it criminal to employ against one another, but cheerfully use to Christianize and civilize the ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various



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