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Bulletproof   /bˈʊlətprˌuf/   Listen
Bulletproof

adjective
1.
Without flaws or loopholes.  Synonyms: unassailable, unshakable, watertight.  "A watertight alibi" , "A bulletproof argument"
2.
Not penetrable by bullets.  "Bulletproof vest"
verb
1.
Make bulletproof.



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"Bulletproof" Quotes from Famous Books



... passing through my mind, two suggestions for dealing with it were put forward. The sailors say some lighters were being built, and probably by now are built, for the purpose of a landing in the North: they would carry five hundred men; had bullet-proof bulwarks and are to work under their own gas engines. If I can possibly get a petition for these through to Winston we would very likely be lent some and with their aid the landing under fire will be child's play to what it will ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton

... Mail-coach drivers and guards travelled armed to the teeth, booted to the hips, with bandeliers across their capacious chests, and three-cornered hats which, in conjunction with their flowing horse-hair wigs, were both sword- and bullet-proof. Passengers who had any value for their lives and limbs, when they booked themselves at London for Exeter or York, provided themselves with cutlasses and blunderbusses, and kept as sharp look-out from the coach-windows ...
— Old Roads and New Roads • William Bodham Donne

... authorized by Congress. If any other proof were wanting that these companies possessed themselves of land which the Indians believed they had never sold, it would appear in the fact that the first thing the settlers did was to build a stockade, or high bullet-proof fence of logs with a strong blockhouse for a kind of citadel, where they might gather for safety in case of attacks from any of the wild natives of ...
— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells

... was bumping up against new wonders at every footstep, and he stumbled continuously as he endeavoured to jot down his impressions in the fat notebook. The Professor felt nothing mysterious about the place. He had the bullet-proof skin of your cold analyst ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer

... do something about it at the meeting this evening. I would be there to cover it. I was beginning to wish I owned a bullet-proof vest. ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper


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