Definitions for Kamikaze

Kamikaze ka·mi·ka·ze

Spelling: [kah-mi-kah-zee]
IPA: /ˌkɑ mɪˈkɑ zi/

Kamikaze is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 27 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in Kamikaze (aaeikkmz).

Definitions for Kamikaze

noun

  1. (during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.
  2. an airplane used for this purpose.
  3. a person or thing that behaves in a wildly reckless or destructive manner:

adjective

  1. of, pertaining to, undertaken by, or characteristic of a kamikaze:

Origin of Kamikaze

1940-45; Japanese, equivalent to kami(y) god (earlier *kamui) + kaze wind (earlier *kanzai

Examples for Kamikaze

Rubio blew it with immigration, and as for Cruz, I think even most Republicans see that that would be a kamikaze mission.

The Intrepid was one of those ships, surviving among other things, a kamikaze strike.

His book, Danger's Hour, a historical look at kamikaze fighters during World War II, came out last fall.

He had some of the characteristics of a kamikaze pilot, too, because there was no telling if he'd get back from his mission.

He talks to Lennox Samuels about radiation fears and why this wasn't a kamikaze mission.

It had been kamikaze stuff, though there'd been a theoretical chance of the thirty men escaping, to justify sending them out.

Following the debate, the Romney campaign blasted Gingrich for his vengeful “kamikaze mission.”

One can only dream, then, of the kamikaze damage Newt can inflict if he keeps his promise to continue fighting to the convention.

Nicole Richie was recently rear-ended by a kamikaze cameraman so hard that she went to the hospital.

Word Value for Kamikaze
Scrable

27

Words with friends

28

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