full metal jacket
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Definition(s):
- (n) a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper)
Usage(s):
- He also saw that Cho had bought a $10 box of 50 9-mm practice rounds, commonly know as full metal jacket rounds because they don't expand on contact like hollow-point rounds.
- But coming from Cheney, in a full metal jacket, the force of the comment was too strong.
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