warhead

English

Etymology

From war +‎ head, originally to distinguish a live war head of a torpedo from an inert exercise head.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

warhead (plural warheads)

1. The part of a missile, projectile, torpedo, rocket, or other munition which contains either the nuclear or thermonuclear system, high explosive system, chemical or biological agents, or inert materials intended to inflict damage.
   • 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:

     "Multi Bottle Rocket". Possibly the strongest weapon around, it does a lot of damage due to its massive warhead.

2. (slang) The glans penis.

Derived terms

• hydrogen warhead
• nuclear warhead
• super warhead

Translations

part of a missile, projectile, torpedo, rocket, or other munition

• Azerbaijani: döyüş başlığı
• Bulgarian: бойна глава f (bojna glava)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 彈頭 / 弹头 (zh) (dàntóu), 戰鬥部 / 战斗部 (zhàndòubù)

• Czech: bojová hlavice f
• Danish: sprænghoved n
• Dutch: springkop
• Estonian: lõhkepea
• Finnish: taistelukärki (fi)
• French: ogive (fr) f
• German: Sprengkopf (de) m, Gefechtskopf (de) m
• Hungarian: robbanófej (hu)
• Indonesian: hulu ledak
• Italian: testata (it) f
• Japanese: 弾頭 (ja) (だんとう, dantō)
• Korean: 탄두 (ko) (tandu)
• Macedonian: бо́ева гла́ва f (bóeva gláva)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stridshode n

  Nynorsk: stridshovud n

• Polish: głowica (pl) f
• Portuguese: ogiva (pt) f
• Russian: боеголо́вка (ru) f (bojegolóvka)
• Spanish: ojiva f
• Swedish: stridsspets (sv) c
• Turkish: savaş başlığı
• Ukrainian: боєголо́вка f (bojeholóvka)
• Vietnamese: đầu đạn
• Yiddish: אויפֿרײַסשפּיץ m (oyfraysshpits)