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battleshippy en · ADJ

Etymology

From battleship + -y.

Meanings

1. (nonce-word) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a battleship.
   • But if you put a carrier up as a second strike strategic potential in a nuclear all-out war, I must say that is a little battleshippy to me, or the long-range subsonic bomber so far as the future is concerned. 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Military procurement authorization fiscal year 1962: Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-Seventh Congress, first session, on Department of Defense programs and authorization of appropriations for procurement of aircraft, missiles, and naval vessels by the Armed Forces ...:
   • She couldn't have been so battleshippy, either, and it's no wonder she had so little trouble picking a husband, though why she picked Edgar Dudley I can't imagine, unless it was because of the mica mine. 1928, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 200, page 88:

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