Bayonet
Bayonet noun - A knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon.
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Machete and bayonet are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Machete" instead a noun "Bayonet".
Nearby Words: bayoneted, bayoneting
Machete
Machete noun - A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
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Favored by Mexican Autodefensas in the Mexican War on Drugs for the fact that a bayonet turns your gun into a spear, which is a very nice thing to have when you have a very real possibility of a huge muscular guy with a machete trying to chop off your head.
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