flamethrower

See also: flame thrower

English

Alternative forms

• flame thrower
• flame-thrower

Etymology

From flame +‎ thrower, calque of German Flammenwerfer.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfleɪmˌθɹəʊ.ə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfleɪmˌθɹoʊ.ɚ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

flamethrower (plural flamethrowers)

1. A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.
2. (basketball, baseball, slang) Someone who is extremely good at throwing or shooting balls.
   • 2017 April 11, “Mike Conley Rewards Grizzlies’ Faith With a Career Season”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-27:

     "We allowed him to kind of orchestrate the whole offense, and he got comfortable early," George said. "He's a flamethrower. Once he gets hot, it's over."

   • 2021 June 15, Eric Nehm, quoting Khris Middleton, “How Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton manipulated the Nets' defense in Game 4”, in The Athletic‎^[2], archived from the original on 4 July 2023:

     So when we see guys like that open, we gotta give them the ball. Especially Bryn [Forbes], he's a flamethrower. The guy is one of the best shooters I've been around, so to have him going in the game, it's much needed for us. We need him to get going. We need him to hit shots.

   • 2021 June 15, Jesse Campigotto, “Baseball has a sticky situation on its hands”, in CBC News‎^[3], archived from the original on 4 July 2023:

     Unlike steroids, these supposedly illegal substances were not used in secret. There was an understanding that it was in everyone's best interest — pitchers and hitters alike — for today's flamethrowers to have a good grip on the ball.

Translations

device that projects a flame

• Arabic: قَاذِفَة لَهَب f (qāḏifat lahab)
• Armenian: հրանետ (hy) (hranet)
• Azerbaijani: odsaçan
• Basque: su-jaurtigailu
• Belarusian: агнямёт m (ahnjamjót)
• Bulgarian: огнехвърга́чка f (ognehvǎrgáčka)
• Catalan: llançaflames m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火焰噴射器／火焰喷射器 (zh) (huǒyàn pēnshèqì), 噴火器／喷火器 (zh) (pēnhuǒqì)

• Corsican: zirlafiare m
• Czech: plamenomet (cs) m
• Danish: flammekaster (da) c
• Dutch: vlammenwerper (nl) m
• Esperanto: flamĵetilo
• Estonian: leegiheitja
• Finnish: liekinheitin (fi)
• French: lance-flamme (fr) m
• Galician: lanzachamas m
• Georgian: ცეცხლსატყორცნები (cecxlsaṭq̇orcnebi)
• German: Flammenwerfer (de) m
• Greek: φλογοβόλο (el) n (flogovólo)
• Hebrew: לַהַבְיוֹר (he) m (lahavyór)
• Hungarian: lángszóró (hu)
• Icelandic: eldvarpa f
• Indonesian: pelontar api
• Interlingua: lanceaflammas
• Irish: teilgeoir lasrach
• Italian: lanciafiamme (it) m
• Japanese: 火炎放射器 (ja) (かえんほうしゃき, kaenhōshaki)
• Kazakh: отшашар (otşaşar)
• Korean: 화염방사기(火焰放射器) (hwayeombangsagi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: agiravêj (ku)

• Latvian: liesmu metējs
• Lithuanian: liepsnosvaidis m
• Macedonian: пламенофр́лач m (plamenofŕlač)
• Norman: lanche-fliambes m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flammekaster m

• Occitan: lançaflamas m, lança-eslamas m, lançahuec m
• Persian: شعله‌افکن (šo'le-afkan)
• Polish: miotacz ognia m, miotacz płomieni m
• Portuguese: lança-chamas m
• Romanian: aruncător de flăcări (ro) m
• Romansch: bittaflommas m
• Russian: огнемёт (ru) m (ognemjót)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пламенобацач m, бацач пламена m

  Roman: plamenobacač m, bacač plamena m

• Slovak: plameňomet m
• Slovene: plamenomet m
• Sorbian:

  Lower: wognjochytak m

  Upper: wohnjomjet, wohnjomjetak, płomjenjomjetadło

• Spanish: lanzallamas (es) m
• Swedish: eldkastare (sv) c, eldspruta (sv) c
• Tajik: оташандоз (otašandoz)
• Tamil: தழல் வீசி (taḻal vīci)
• Turkish: alev makinesi (tr)
• Ukrainian: вогнеме́т m (vohnemét)
• Uzbek: oʻtsochar (uz)
• Vietnamese: súng phun lửa