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bullet-nose

bullet-nose adjective: having the design or style of the nose of a bullet.

Adjective

bullet-nose (not comparable)

  1. (attributive) Having the design or style of the nose of a bullet.
    • Externally the cars are a departure from the previous awkward bullet-nose design, simplifying the connecting of the cars with diaphragms.1961 November, D. W. Beadle, “New long-distance electric units for the Italian State Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670

Forms of bullet-nose

alternative formbulletnose

Questions about bullet-nose

What does bullet-nose mean?
Bullet-nose means having the design or style of the nose of a bullet.
What part of speech is bullet-nose?
Bullet-nose is an adjective.

Words near bullet-nose in the dictionary

  1. bullet wood
  2. bullet woods
  3. bullet-head
  4. bullet-headed
  5. bullet-heads
  6. bullet-nose
  7. bullet-point
  8. bullet-pointed
  9. bullet-pointing
  10. bullet-points
  11. bullet-proof

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