banzai attack
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“We thought it was a banzai attack but parrots had moved in on us. They were objecting to us being there. There were hundreds of them.”
From Washington Times • Feb. 1, 2020
John Sidur rescued two hometown buddies during Japan’s largest banzai attack of the war, near the end of the Battle of Saipan in July 1945.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2017
Swooping and slashing down the ice, the shaggy-haired trio is a French Canadian version of a banzai attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes it would be in force in a banzai attack.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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