1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Kamikaze

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

n. A Japanese pilot trained in World War II to make a suicidal crash attack, especially upon a ship.

n. An airplane loaded with explosives to be piloted in a suicide attack.

n. Slang An extremely reckless person who seems to court death.

adj. Of or relating to a suicidal air attack: a kamikaze mission.

adj. Slang So reckless in behavior or actions as to be suicidal: kamikaze hot rodders.

n. An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.

n. One who makes an attack requiring his suicide, especially when done with an aircraft.

n. a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II

n. a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash

"When Japan was in equally desperate straits in 1944, using the word kamikaze for the suicide pilots was not for nothing."

Words that are more generic or abstract

fighter aircraft attack aircraft fighter suicide bomber pilot

hara-kiri seppuku suicide

Words with the same terminal sound

Anasazi Ashkenazi Swazi

Words that are found in similar contexts

coralskipper stauncher medevac radio-controlled engineersand