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bulletproof

[bool-it-proof]

adjective

  1. (of vehicles, glass, clothing, etc.) capable of resisting or absorbing the impact of a bullet.

  2. Informal.safe from failure; without errors or shortcomings and beyond criticism.

    a bulletproof system; a bulletproof budget.



verb (used with object)

  1. to make (something) bulletproof.

bulletproof

/ ˈʊɪˌː /

adjective

  1. not penetrable by bullets

    bulletproof glass

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (tr) to make bulletproof

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bulletproof1

First recorded in 1855–60; bullet + -proof
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On Friday morning, Julia Meltzer was on her way to work and had just turned left on Virgil Avenue from 6th Street when she saw a number of men in bulletproof vests.

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I did a scene where I’m wearing a bulletproof vest.

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Some of Trump’s targets have cottoned on to his practice of letting bluster do the hard work of policymaking, rather than painstakingly drafting his policies so they’re legally and constitutionally bulletproof.

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The injury to Lee's jugular vein, though requiring extensive surgery, was not critical - but he now campaigns behind bulletproof glass, wearing a bulletproof vest, surrounded by agents carrying ballistic briefcases.

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“He was laughing about it and was like, ‘If it sucks, the songs are pretty bulletproof.’”

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