Etimology
From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wēbnom. Cognate with Scots wapyn, wappen (“weapon”), West Frisian wapen (“weapon”), Dutch wapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Low German wapen (“weapon”), German Waffe (“weapon”) and Wappen (“coat of arms”), Danish våben (“weapon; coat of arms”) Swedish vapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Norwegian Bokmål våpen (“weapon”), Icelandic vopn (“weapon”).
noun
weapon (plural weapons)
An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords; arm.
An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
(informal, humorous) A tool of any kind.
(British, slang, derogatory) An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.
(Australia, slang) A very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.
(rare, slang) The human genital organ.
Examples
The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon.
Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:weapon
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. […] One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs.
“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
Rory Delap's long throw-ins are a familiar weapon to the Potters' opponents but this does not make them any easier to defend against.
Choose your weapon.
Synonyms: legend, champion, unit
It has a whopping 5.4-litre V8, with a supercharger bolted to the top of it to help low-end pulling power. In short, it's a weapon and will happily dust a Porsche as easy as brushing your teeth.
We played Endless Heights' record release show earlier this year and during their set Christian from Endless Heights' lung collapsed, but he finished the set like an absolute weapon.
I adore her in Easter Parade and Meet Me in St. Louis, but my favourite performance of hers is her concert at [New York’s] Carnegie Hall. She’s a total weapon on that stage.
American teenager Caroline Marks was trotting across the sand on her dream day at North Narrabeen when Luke Egan called out to her: "You weapon!" [...] Egan was mentoring Marks in between commentary stints. He was one of the people to chair the weapon up the beach, calling out to her: "What did I tell you!"
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:genitalia
Young motherfucking legend, niggas just pretendingI spit my shit, infectious, don't come in my sectionOr get wet bitch with that weaponLift the pussy, yeah I bench press it, and I been stressing since a adolescent
Weh you get da pussy deh from?Hey, gyal me love youMd love the way you use your weaponGyal, your pussy tight like a vice grip
Bring my baby a presentPut your head on the dresserShe open her legs, then I whip out my weaponSj immortal, the fuck is checking
I bust a bitch down in forty-five secondsIf it's good, Imma pop two Percs, and come back for secondsShe probably got a felony, that's an illegal weaponStick my whole hand in her pussy, I was tryna stretch it
Related words
hyponyms
ABC weapon
anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW)
anti-tank weapon
assault weapon
atomic weapon
binary weapon
biological weapon
bioweapon
chemical weapon
cold weapon
conventional weapon
crew-served weapon
cyberweapon
digital weapon
doomsday weapon
drop weapon
energy weapon
gun
mass destruction weapon
murder weapon
nuclear weapon
personal defense weapon
pistol
radiological weapon
ranged weapon
section automatic weapon
siege weapon
space weapon
squad automatic weapon
superweapon
sword
tectonic weapon
thermobaric weapon
thermonuclear weapon
weapon of mass destruction (WMD)
weapon of wholesale destruction
verb
weapon (third-person singular simple present weapons, present participle weaponing, simple past and past participle weaponed)
(transitive) To equip with a weapon; to arm.
Examples
[…] the friends of the country and of the equal rights of all men, the friends of enfranchising the black man and of weaponing his hand for defense; the friends of taking the governments of these rebel States out of the hands of their rebel possessors, […]