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See also: bulletproof
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bullet-proof (comparative more bullet-proof, superlative most bullet-proof)
- Alternative spelling of bulletproof (all senses)
- 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Awakening”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 20:
- The bullet-proof shutters, the stacks of hand-grenades, and the Gatling guns of the Sub-Treasury are tacit admissions of the fact and of the quality of the mercy expected.
Verb
[edit]bullet-proof (third-person singular simple present bullet-proofs, present participle bullet-proofing, simple past and past participle bullet-proofed)
- Alternative spelling of bulletproof