dumdum

Example Sentences

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Here comes the dumdum who had no idea what we were saying.

From Time • Oct. 11, 2016

Rowan is still the smart one, and Martin is correctly addressed as a dingaling, a dumdum and a dodo.

From Time Magazine Archive

He’d heard the word so often—mostly from Maria—he’d thought it was only a swear word, like dumdum or cootie face.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

The stories of the effects of the Throg's dumdum weapon were anything but pretty.

From Storm Over Warlock by Norton, Andre

March 8—British charge that German dumdum bullets were found after a recent battle in Egypt.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various