artillery

artillery
   1. American
   a hypodermic needle
   From loading the charge and the explosive effect:
    ... a piece of community artillery passed from junkie to junkie. (Wambaugh, 1975)
   2. armed supporters of a gangster
   The weapons used are pistols, not howitzers or field guns:
    'DJs', so called, to mix the stuff, and 'scramblers', who get paid in drugs to make the connections, 'mules' to carry it and move it two times every day from garages and apartments where it's stored, and his 'artillery', Honcho, Gorgo, and them motherfuckers so nobody think they can move up on [him]. (Turow, 1996)

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  • Artillery — Ar*til ler*y, n. [OE. artilrie, OF. artillerie, arteillerie, fr. LL. artillaria, artilleria, machines and apparatus of all kinds used in war, vans laden with arms of any kind which follow camps; F. artillerie great guns, ordnance; OF. artillier… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Artillery — Основная информация Жанр Трэш метал Спид метал …   Википедия

  • Artillery — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Artillery es una banda de thrash danesa perteneciente al movimiento thrash metal activo en los años 1980, y fue partícipe en el desarrollo primigenio del género. Su música, altamente enérgica, se caracterizó por el… …   Wikipedia Español

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  • artillery — [är til′ər ē] n. [ME < OFr artillerie < artillier (prob. altered by assoc. with arte, ART1) < atillier, to equip; dissimilated var. of atirier: see ATTIRE] 1. Archaic apparatus, as catapults or arbalests, for hurling heavy missiles 2.… …   English World dictionary

  • artillery — ► NOUN 1) large calibre guns used in warfare on land. 2) a branch of the armed forces trained to use artillery. ORIGIN Old French artillerie, from atillier equip, arm …   English terms dictionary

  • Artillery — est un groupe de Thrash metal danois qui a débuté sa carrière en 1982 dans une banlieue de Copenhague, Taastrup. Les membres étaient les guitaristes Jørgen Sandau et Michael Stützer, le bassiste Morten Stützer, le batteur Carsten Nielsen et le… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • artillery — (n.) late 14c., warlike munitions, from Anglo Fr. artillerie, O.Fr. artillerie (14c.), from artillier to provide with engines of war (13c.), which probably is from M.L. articulum art, skill, diminutive of L. ars (gen. artis) art. But some would… …   Etymology dictionary

  • artillery — ordnance, *armament, materiel, munitions, arms, ammunition …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • artillery — [n] weaponry or military unit arms, battery, bazooka, big guns*, cannon, cannonry, force, gunnery, heavy stuff*, munitions, ordnance, rainmakers*, stovepipe, weapons; concepts 322,500 …   New thesaurus

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