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SOFT-NOSED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does soft-nosed mean?
• SOFT-NOSED (adjective)
The adjective SOFT-NOSED has 1 sense:
1. (of a bullet) made of soft material that expands on impact
Familiarity information: SOFT-NOSED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of a bullet) made of soft material that expands on impact
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
bullet (a projectile that is fired from a gun)
Context examples
And yet there was the dead man and there the revolver bullet, which had mushroomed out, as soft-nosed bullets will, and so inflicted a wound which must have caused instantaneous death.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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