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TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small destroyer that was the forerunner of modern destroyers; designed to destroy torpedo boats
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("torpedo-boat destroyer" is a kind of...):
destroyer; guided missile destroyer (a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship)