dumdum

Meaning

Noun

A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound.
An ignorant person; an idiot.

Origin

From Dum Dum, a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from Hindi दम दम (Bengali দমদম), from Hindi दमदमा.
From the adjective dumb.

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