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harpoons

  • plural of harpoon.
  • present tense form of harpoon (3rd person singular).

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The truck-launched Harpoons sank two Russian ships in the Black Sea.

From Washington Times • Dec. 18, 2023

ATACMS, Harpoons and Stingers are all weapons the Pentagon was already phasing out, so why spend billions of dollars to buy thousands of them now?

From Salon • Nov. 18, 2022

The Harpoons — which can cost upward of $1 million per unit — are precision-guided armaments that require GPS coordinates to strike.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2022

All weapons requests that have U.S. content such as Harpoons and NSMs would have to be approved by the U.S.

From Reuters • May 19, 2022

Harpoons hung on the wall, and under the window was a long couch of furs.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George