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Shrapnel is the small pieces of metal that fly out when a bomb, shell, or similar weapon explodes. Those bits can cut and kill far from the blast itself. The word began as a man’s name: Henry Shrapnel, a British army officer, designed a shell that carried many bullets and released them much farther than a rifle could shoot. Today people use shrapnel for almost any flying metal from an explosion, not only his exact invention. You meet it in news, history, and war films more than in daily chat. Some speakers stretch it to “bits that flew everywhere” even with no bomb — that is loose, and careful speakers keep it for weapons.
組成Named after Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), the British officer who invented that kind of shell. The surname is likely a rearranged form of French Charbonnel, a small form of charbon (“charcoal”), perhaps describing hair or complexion.
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Shrapnelname
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A surname
shrapnelnoun/ˈʃɹæpnəl/
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historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsAn anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets or balls close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
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historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsThe bullets or balls from the aforementioned type of artillery shell.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsAny shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb, or landmine.
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Debris.
- The dog ate my sandwich, and there was shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag.
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slangLoose change.
- I was waiting in the queue, looking at the board / Wondering whether to have a burger or chips / Or what the shrapnel in my back pocket could afford
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