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Torpedo
(redirected from exploder)

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Torpedo
Drug slang A regional street term for crack and marijuana, presumably used together
Military A self-propelled explosive projectile weapon, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater toward a target, and designed to detonate on contact with, or in proximity to, a target, usually understood to be a ship
Neuropathology A focal fusiform swelling of the axons of Purkinje cells, located in the first portion of the axis cylinder prior to the origin of collateral branches, often accompanied by swollen dendritic ramifications and patchy displacement of Purkinje cells, a typical pathologic finding in olivopontocerebellar atrophy of the granular layer of the cerebellum

torpedo
fusiform swellings of proximal axonal segments of cerebellar Purkinje cells in cases of perennial rye grass mycotoxicosis and some forms of storage disease.


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For Nanette was the family's sole remaining exploder, the only one of her father's progeny to have inherited his propensity for not stinting when it came to the expression of rage.
In Into Danger: Risking Your Life For Work (Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 20), Kate talks to people whose jobs put them in daily peril - from stunt people to landmine exploders and even a "snake man" who has been bitten by poisonous snakes to find venom for vaccines.
The album is a spoken-word affair, with Edison reading from the book over hard-driving musical backdrops produced by blues exploder Jon Spencer -- an Edison crony who produced and guested on Rocket Train recordings.
 
 
 
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