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banzai

[ bahn-zahy, bahn-; Japanese bahn-dzah-ee ]

interjection

  1. (used as a Japanese patriotic cry or joyous shout.)
  2. (used as a Japanese battle cry.)


adjective

  1. leading to likely or inevitable death; suicidal:

    a banzai attack by Japanese troops in the last days of World War II.

banzai

/ ˈbÉ‘Ënzaɪ; bÉ‘Ënˈzaɪ /

interjection

  1. a patriotic cheer, battle cry, or salutation
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of banzai1

1890–95; < Japanese, equivalent to ban ten thousand + -zai, combining form of sai years of age (< Middle Chinese, akin to Chinese ·Éà²Ô-²õ³Üì, Korean manse )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of banzai1

Japanese: literally, (may you live for) ten thousand years
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Last September, hundreds of people gathered at a court in Shizuoka, a city on Japan's south coast, where a judge handed down the acquittal - to loud cheers of "banzai", or "hurray" in Japanese.

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“On this May Day, we unite with our fellow workers around the world standing up for their rights,†she said, shouting “banzai!†or long life, to all workers.

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The Japanese fired mortars and large artillery ahead of banzai charges by fearless soldiers willing to run into the Americans’ Browning machine guns.

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“We decided it must be a banzai attack,†Gibbs recalled.

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The daily “banzai runs†in Yuma, Ariz., that used to send hundreds of young men dashing across the scarcely marked border to overwhelm a few dozen U.S. agents were already a thing of the past.

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