jackhammer
IPA: dʒˈækhæmɝ
noun
- A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.
verb
- (intransitive) To use a jackhammer.
- (transitive) To break (something) using a jackhammer.
- (transitive) To form (something) using a jackhammer.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move like a jackhammer.
- To beat hard, to pound. (of the heart or pulse)
- (transitive, figurative) To move (something) like a jackhammer.
- (transitive, figurative) To strike (something) repeatedly with force, to pound.
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Examples of "jackhammer" in Sentences
- I think I went to college with Ed Martin jackhammer
- Then came the jackhammer bursts of antiaircraft guns.
- “Working a jackhammer is a noble profession,” John said.
- Three years ago I put a Wasp jackhammer broadhead thru a small doe.
- I had never experienced that kind of jackhammer pain before, and I had to endure it until Monday rolled around when I could find a dentist to see me.
- We just heard from an eyewitness who said there was some kind of jackhammer that was being used and all of the sudden the bridge just completely collapsed.
- I have no idea what kind of jackhammer-powered wooden stake we have to drive through the hearts of those people to finally break the curse, but I'm up all night thinking about it.
- And how did such seemingly non-toyetic robot designs like one with only a head and arms and wheels with no body or another with a 'jackhammer' uni-leg come about when, even for the movie aesthetic, they are pretty far out there for a movie basically about a toy line?
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