Thesaurus results for TORPEDO

torpedo

noun

tȯr-ˈpē-(ˌ)dō

Definition of torpedo

as in submarine

a large sandwich on a long split roll that deli's torpedoes are big enough to serve two people

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Recent Examples of torpedo The torpedo bat is a new, but apparently legal, bat design in which the wood is most dense nearest a hitter's sweet spot. —Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025 The 7,800-ton, 377-foot-long Virginia-class submarine can carry 25 torpedoes and 12 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles. —David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025 The koi — each one shaped like a torpedo, at least 18 inches long and weighing around 3.5 pounds — proved trickily slippery. —Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025 Now, the only way to convince a U-boat commander to surface was to deliberately take a torpedo strike and play dead. —Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for torpedo