bazoo
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of bazoo
C19: of unknown origin
Example Sentences
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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
Wendell Willkie blew this blistering bazoo at the White House.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Phillips, Henry Wallace
"Why don't Red start his bazoo?" whispered that long-legged worthy in Elmer's ear, as he lay flattened out on the ground in the gloomy far-end part of the loggers' bunk-house.
From Woodcraft or, How a Patrol Leader Made Good by Douglas, Alan
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 Smith, George Oliver
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