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
"Here comes a car, and the driver's tooting his old bazoo to beat the band."
From The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck by John Luther Langworthy
"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
"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 Alan Douglas
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