bazoo
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of bazoo
C19: of unknown origin
Example Sentences
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Wendell Willkie blew this blistering bazoo at the White House.
From Time Magazine Archive
For comrades, Brookhart and Wheeler have the tart Moses from New Hampshire; Jones of Washington, normally placid and a bit heavy, but roaring, desk-pounding when aroused; Ashurst from Arizona, with a substantial "bazoo."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Give it to 'em, Si," his comrades would Say, when he turned up his loud bazoo on the rations question.
From Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran by John McElroy
You sassed that poor swatty that wanted to keep you out of this, tooting your bazoo like a man peddling soap; but now it's up to you.
From Red Saunders His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips
I'd been eleven before I got walloped across the bazoo by pointing out to her that we'll see really meant no, because nothing that she said it to ever came to pass.
From Highways in Hiding by George Oliver Smith
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