とっこう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of とっこう – see the following entries.

【特攻】 [noun] suicide attack [verb] (literal or figurative) to perform a suicide attack

【特高】 [proper noun] Short for 特別高等警察 (Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu): the secret police of pre-1945 Shōwa-era Japan

(This term, とっこう (tokkō), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)