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noun
A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, firearms, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
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noun
A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
A bottle of Magnum Tonic Wine, a fermented mead drink popular among Jamaicans and other Caribbean peoples for its intoxicating effects, vitamins and use as a purported sexual stimulant. The drink is highly associated with dancehall music and Jamaican pop culture.
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noun
a large wine bottle for liquor or wine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wine bottle
History
From Latin magnum, neuter of magnus (“great”). * (bottle): Ellipsis of magnum bonum. * (handgun): Name registered 1935 by Smith & Wesson Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Shortening of Magnum Tonic Wine.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
