bullet hole

See also: bullethole

English

Noun

bullet hole (plural bullet holes)

1. A circular wound or hole caused by the projectile of a firearm.

   The car was covered in bullet holes after the gang shootout.

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 209:

     Can’t say I saw any road or any upkeep, unless the body of a middle-aged negro, with a bullet-hole in the forehead, upon which I absolutely stumbled three miles farther on, may be considered as a permanent improvement.

Translations

wound

• Afrikaans: koeëlgat
• Danish: skudsår n
• Dutch: kogelgat (nl) n
• Finnish: ampumahaava
• Latin: vulnus sclopetarium (medical)
• Portuguese: tiro (pt) m

hole

• Danish: skudhul c
• Finnish: luodinreikä
• German: Einschussloch (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kulehull n, kulehol n

  Nynorsk: kulehol n

• Portuguese: buraco de bala m, tiro (pt) m
• Swedish: kulhål (sv) n