buzzsaw

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A circular saw.

   • Agriculture Secretary Edward T. Schafer is preparing to walk into a buzzsaw of criticism over American biofuels policy when he meets with world leaders to discuss the global food crisis next week.
2. 2

   Someone or something that makes a loud, harsh, grinding or rasping noise, like that of a…

   Someone or something that makes a loud, harsh, grinding or rasping noise, like that of a circular saw.

   • No danger of these buzzsaws waking up, it was enough to make you wish for impaired hearing.
   • Anyway, buzzsaw hardcore from both bands with nice 'n' trebly production, and each have some Japanese influences in there.
   • Nasal buzzsaws shook the sides of the tent as finally, they were all out for night.
3. 3

   The MG 42 general-purpose machine gun.

   • Golden tracers from the jaggering MG42 buzzsaw lit up the air like glitter, and from both directions there were bee-hive-volumes of whizzes and snaps as bullets passed through the air, in some cases only feet from them.
   • Cade braced its stock against his shoulder, sighted the moving shadows in the woods, and let the buzz saw chew into them.
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   1. 4

      A violently destructive attack.

      • The changes ran into a buzzsaw of Congressional criticism.
      • Downsizings attack managers like an emotional buzzsaw.
      • Landry's martyrdom was automatic and mostly unavoidable -- although Jerry, bless his heart, went into his initial press conference at Valley Ranch and walked right into his second media buzzsaw.
   2. 5

      One who attacks violently and/or mindlessly.

      • So he keeps away from the intellectual buzzsaws; and, as both philology and philosophy grow ever more and more technical, the gap between them, if anything, widens.
      • Apparently the jay was unaware that the hawk no longer had its hold because it became a buzzsaw of blue fury, slashing the hawk several more times.
   3. 6

      To cut with a circular saw.

   4. 7

      To spin rapidly like the blades of a circular saw.

      • The 7.62 tumblers would buzzsaw through the flimsy protection offered by the float.
   5. 8

      To produce a loud, harsh noise like that of a circular saw.

      • When the sun comes early through eastern windows and a single horsefly buzzsaws the air it is then I rise from bed my dreams of amputation, of teeth lost, cloaked in the amnesia of another day overwhelmed with trivia.
      • A loud screeching sound buzzsaws the eerie silence of the day.

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