dum-dum

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dum-dum

slang Someone who is very stupid. Can you believe that dum-dum is still pushing the door marked "pull"?

dumb-dumb

and dum-dum

n. a stupid oaf; a dullard. Marvin is no dum-dum. He just looks that way.

dum-dum

verb

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References in classic literature ?

Shall Tarzan dance the Dum-Dum with his brothers now, or shall he kill first?

he cried "Tarzan of the Apes will dance the Dum-Dum with his brothers and Go-lat will dance with him

And then the girl in the tree saw the savage man leaping, bending, and stamping with the savage apes in the ancient rite of the Dum-Dum.

Sheeta, the panther, knowing that not even Numa, the lion, unless maddened by starvation, dares meddle with the great apes at their Dum-Dum, had silently vanished into the night, seeking his supper elsewhere.

View in context

Express way for water supply scheme under Dum-Dum , South Dum-Dum and North Dum-Dum .

Repairing And Painting Of M.s. Structural Steel Pipe Carrying Bridge Over A Canal Near Adharsha Nagar Adjacent To B.k. Express Way For Water Supply Scheme Under Dum-dum , South Dum-dum And North Dum-dum

The PPC said that Minor Issa al-Ma'ati, 13, who is currently receiving treatment at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, was shot by the Israeli forces with a dum-dum bullet in his leg on September 18, 2015, WAFA reported.

Prisoner's Club Appeals for Release of Palestinian Minor Detained by Israel

The "evil dum-dum bullet" argument does get used by prosecutors and plaintiffs' lawyers alike, whether out of deception or cluelessness.

Police ammo for the rest of us?

Dum-Dum the elephant was taking a walk on the urban side back in October 1982, to the delight of shoppers in Newgate Street.