shrapnel
IPA: ʃrˈæpnʌɫ
noun
- (military, historical) An anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
- (military, historical) The bullets from the aforementioned type of artillery shell.
- (military) Shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb or landmine.
- (slang) Loose change.
- Debris.
- A surname
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Examples of "shrapnel" in Sentences
- A shrapnel wound is more plausible.
- The source of the shrapnel is unclear.
- It protected against shrapnel and cuts.
- SID and forensics are looking for shrapnel.
- It survived with shrapnel damage to the tail.
- Shrapnel removed and appl bacitracin dressing.
- Catherwood was injured in the knee by shrapnel.
- Shrapnel is not fragmentation, that's the point.
- The blast raked the fuselage with flying shrapnel.
- The shrapnel will ricochet and it is possible for suicide with this weapon.