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Humvee en · NOUN

Derived from the attempt to pronounce the acronym HMMWV (“High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle”).

(US) A diesel-powered, four-wheel drive tactical military vehicle that can carry a wide variety of military hardware.
- We went out into the streets of Zafaraniya, travelling in the usual two-Humvee convoy, complete with gunners. 2003 November 24, The New Yorker:
- Stores, dealerships, galleries struggled to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for ever more recherché produce: limited-edition olive oils, three-hundred-dollar corkscrews, customized Humvees, the latest anti-virus software, escort services featuring contortionists and twins, video installations, outsider art, featherlight shawls made from the chin-fluff of extinct mountain goats. 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:
- Last week, I read 2,300 Humvees—these are big vehicles—were left behind for the enemy. 2,000? You would say maybe two, maybe four? 2,300 sophisticated vehicles, they ran, and the enemy took them. 2015 June 16, Donald Trump, “Transcript: Donald Trump announces his presidential candidacy”, in CBS News:

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