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tor·pe·do (tôr-pē')
n., pl., -does.
  1. A cigar-shaped, self-propelled underwater projectile launched from a submarine, aircraft, or ship and designed to detonate on contact with or in the vicinity of a target.
  2. Any of various submarine explosive devices, especially a submarine mine.
  3. A small explosive placed on a railroad track that is fired by the weight of the train to sound a warning of an approaching hazard.
  4. An explosive fired in an oil or gas well to begin or increase the flow.
  5. A small firework consisting of gravel wrapped in tissue paper with a percussion cap that explodes when thrown against a hard surface.
  6. See electric ray.
  7. Slang. A professional assassin or thug.
  8. Chiefly New Jersey. See submarine (sense 2). See Regional Note at submarine.
tr.v., -doed, -do·ing, -does.
  1. To attack, strike, or sink with a torpedo.
  2. To destroy decisively; wreck: torpedo efforts at reform.

[Latin torpēdō, numbness; electric ray, crampfish, from torpēre, to be stiff.]




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