buzzsaw

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A circular saw.
    — Agriculture Secretary Edward T. Schafer is preparing to walk into a buzzsaw of criticism over American biofuels policy when he meets with world leaders to discuss the global food crisis next week.
  2. Someone or something that makes a loud, harsh, grinding or rasping noise, like that of a circular saw. slang
    — No danger of these buzzsaws waking up, it was enough to make you wish for impaired hearing.
  3. The MG 42 general-purpose machine gun. slang
    — Golden tracers from the jaggering MG42 buzzsaw lit up the air like glitter, and from both directions there were bee-hive-volumes of whizzes and snaps as bullets passed through the air, in some cases only feet from them.
  4. A violently destructive attack. slang
    — The changes ran into a buzzsaw of Congressional criticism.
  5. One who attacks violently and/or mindlessly.
    — So he keeps away from the intellectual buzzsaws; and, as both philology and philosophy grow ever more and more technical, the gap between them, if anything, widens.
动词 v.
  1. To cut with a circular saw. transitive
  2. To spin rapidly like the blades of a circular saw. colloquial,intransitive
    — The 7.62 tumblers would buzzsaw through the flimsy protection offered by the float.
  3. To produce a loud, harsh noise like that of a circular saw. ambitransitive,colloquial
    — When the sun comes early through eastern windows and a single horsefly buzzsaws the air it is then I rise from bed my dreams of amputation, of teeth lost, cloaked in the amnesia of another day overwhelmed with trivia.

词形变化

buzzsaws plural buzzsaws present,singular,third-person buzzsawing participle,present buzzsawed participle,past buzzsawed past

词汇关系

衍生词
Hitler's buzzsaw

词源

词源 1
From buzz + saw.
词源 2
From buzz + saw.
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