bulletproof

[bool-it-proof]

adjective

1. (of vehicles, glass, clothing, etc.) capable of resisting or absorbing the impact of a bullet.

2. Informal.,  safe from failure; without errors or shortcomings and beyond criticism.

   a bulletproof system; a bulletproof budget.

verb (used with object)

1. to make (something) bulletproof.

bulletproof

/ ˈbʊlɪtˌpruːf /

adjective

1. not penetrable by bullets

   bulletproof glass

verb

1. (tr) to make bulletproof

Word History and Origins

Origin of bulletproof¹

First recorded in 1855–60; bullet + -proof

Example Sentences

Regardless of the inspiration these repertory theaters provide with, say, retrospectives of Akira Kurosawa, the model is not bulletproof to the punches theaters have taken.

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The OG photographer and director has 30-plus years of shooting everything from hip-hop artists to Afghan prisons to Japanese Bōsōzoku, resulting in a bulletproof archive that spans wide and delves deep into the cultural spectrum.

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It just felt like this show is pretty bulletproof at this point.

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"If you design something that can survive on the lunar surface long-term, you're pretty bulletproof anywhere else in the solar system."

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He later returns and is seen hurling the wrapped sandwich into the chest of a uniformed agent, who appears to be wearing a bulletproof vest.

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