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buzzsaw
noun 5verb 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
flimsy, hardcore, over
VERB + BUZZSAW
walk
BUZZSAW + NOUN
criticism
PREP.
from, into, through
ADV.
anyway
Definitions
noun
1
A circular saw.
Agriculture Secretary Edward T. Schafer is preparing to walk into a buzzsaw of criticism over American biofuels policy when he meets with world leaders to discuss the global food crisis next week.
2
Someone or something that makes a loud, harsh, grinding or rasping noise, like that of a circular saw.
No danger of these buzzsaws waking up, it was enough to make you wish for impaired hearing.
Anyway, buzzsaw hardcore from both bands with nice 'n' trebly production, and each have some Japanese influences in there.
3
The MG 42 general-purpose machine gun.
Golden tracers from the jaggering MG42 buzzsaw lit up the air like glitter, and from both directions there were bee-hive-volumes of whizzes and snaps as bullets passed through the air, in some cases only feet from them.
Suddenly, machine-gun rounds tore over their heads, stitching a neat row of holes in the wall above them, the weapon's unmistakable ripping report identifying it as a 'buzz saw', as the GIs had nicknamed the German MG42 because of its stupendous rate of fire.
4
A violently destructive attack.
The changes ran into a buzzsaw of Congressional criticism.
Downsizings attack managers like an emotional buzzsaw.
5
One who attacks violently and/or mindlessly.
So he keeps away from the intellectual buzzsaws; and, as both philology and philosophy grow ever more and more technical, the gap between them, if anything, widens.
Apparently the jay was unaware that the hawk no longer had its hold because it became a buzzsaw of blue fury, slashing the hawk several more times.
verb
1
To cut with a circular saw.
2
To spin rapidly like the blades of a circular saw.
The 7.62 tumblers would buzzsaw through the flimsy protection offered by the float.
3
To produce a loud, harsh noise like that of a circular saw.
When the sun comes early through eastern windows and a single horsefly buzzsaws the air it is then I rise from bed my dreams of amputation, of teeth lost, cloaked in the amnesia of another day overwhelmed with trivia.
A loud screeching sound buzzsaws the eerie silence of the day.
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Agriculture Secretary Edward T. Schafer is preparing to walk into a buzzsaw of criticism over American biofuels policy when he meets with world leaders to discuss the global food crisis next week.
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No danger of these buzzsaws waking up, it was enough to make you wish for impaired hearing.
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Anyway, buzzsaw hardcore from both bands with nice 'n' trebly production, and each have some Japanese influences in there.
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The 7.62 tumblers would buzzsaw through the flimsy protection offered by the float.
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When the sun comes early through eastern windows and a single horsefly buzzsaws the air it is then I rise from bed my dreams of amputation, of teeth lost, cloaked in the amnesia of another day overwhe
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A loud screeching sound buzzsaws the eerie silence of the day.
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