LekhoriLekhoriA soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound.
He related to us how the savages make bullets from the heart of a very hard wood cured by a special process. These bullets are only effectual when fired from a short range, and when they lodge in the flesh they explode like dumdum bullets.
An ignorant person; an idiot.
Alternative form of Dum Dum (“Indian city”).
From Dum Dum, a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from Hindi दम दम (dam dam) (Bengali দমদম (domodom)), from Hindi दमदमा (damadmā, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”).
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