torpedo vs victim

torpedo

noun
  • A professional gunman or assassin. 

  • A similar projectile that can travel through space. 

  • An electric ray of the genus Torpedo. 

  • A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object. 

  • A small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it. 

  • A thick marijuana cigarette. 

  • A cigarette containing marijuana and crack cocaine. 

  • A submarine sandwich. 

  • An automobile with a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable soft top, and having the hood or bonnet line raised to be level with the car's waistline, resulting in a straight beltline from front to back. 

  • A woman's shoe with a pointed toe. 

  • A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon. 

  • A large breast; a breast with a large nipple. 

verb
  • To sink (a ship) with one or more torpedoes. 

  • To strike (a ship) with one or more torpedoes. 

  • To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack. 

victim

noun
  • One who is harmed or killed by a crime or scam. 

  • One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceived, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular 

  • One who is harmed or killed by an accident or illness. 

  • A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite. 

  • The transfigured body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist. 

  • One who is harmed or killed as a result of a natural or man-made disaster or impersonal condition. 

  • One who is harmed or killed as a result of other people's biases, emotions or incompetence, or their own. 

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