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bullet-proof en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of bulletproof (all senses)
The bullet-proof shutters, the stacks of hand-grenades, and the Gatling guns of the Sub-Treasury are tacit admissions of the fact and of the quality of the mercy expected.
1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Awakening”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 20:
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bullet-proof en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of bulletproof.
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