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academic weapons

academic weapons is the plural of academic weapon.

Meaning of academic weapon

Noun

academic weapon (plural academic weapons)

  1. (Internet, humorous) An exceptionally productive and diligent student.
    • I became a true academic weapon by drinking lots of coffee, one of the few socially acceptable study drugs.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see academic, weapon.
    • The academic community either dismisses the work as absurdly out-of-date (always an excellent defence against new ideas), or resorts to the more traditional and more effective academic weapon of silence.1988, Madsen Pirie, Micropolitics, Aldershot, Hampshire: Wildwood House, →ISBN, page 10

Questions about academic weapons

What is academic weapons the plural of?
Academic weapons is the plural of academic weapon.

Words near academic weapons in the dictionary

  1. academic quarter
  2. academic quarters
  3. academic question
  4. academic questions
  5. academic weapon
  6. academic weapons
  7. academic year
  8. academic years
  9. academical
  10. academical clerk
  11. academical clerks

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