Definitions for kamikazes

kamikazes ka·mi·ka·ze

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

Kamikazes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 27 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in kamikazes (aaeikkmsz).

Definitions for kamikazes

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 kamikazes

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

Examples for kamikazes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for kamikazes
Scrable

27

Words with friends

28

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