NOUN
- a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound
How To Use dumdum bullet In A Sentence
- Bullets cause injury by transferring their energy into the body tissues; the design of the bullet influences this process, with hollow nosed or dumdum bullets being designed to maximise energy transfer.
- Does ‘any means necessary’ include dumdum bullets? The Volokh Conspiracy » Remarkable Window into Amnesty International’s Worldview
- Most departments, whether armed with pistols or revolvers, have already switched to hollow-point dumdum bullets that mushroom on impact, thus causing more injury. Arms Race On Hill Street
- This way, when he shows up to work one morning and pumps a round into his nagging, ineffectual, petty, whining, butt-sucking, candy-ass boss, that one round will split along the filed grooves and spread open the way a dumdum bullet flowers inside you to blow a bushel load of your stinking guts out through your spine. Archive 2009-03-01
- The bullet often breaks into tiny pieces after penetration, ripping up muscle and nerve and causing multiple internal injuries, much like the internationally banned dumdum bullet.
- And even though some of what he thought about vampires had proved to be hopelessly wrong, a dumdum bullet to the face would stop anything for a while. 30 Days Of Night
- They used bullets that are called dumdum bullets, and when they hit, whatever they hit, there are fragments everywhere, and they shot at the cameramen.
- Walters "loved the line" in a Newsweek profile that described the questions she asked as "some of the toughest in television journalism -- dumdum bullets swaddled in angora. Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Dum Dum Bullets Swaddled in Angora
