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Pocket battleship Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Pocket battleship has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930)

2

Any of a class of German cruisers, having guns normally found on a battleship, operated during World War II; a battlecruiser

See Also
cruiser world war ii german battleship gun battlecruiser
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
battleship
Rhyming Words
hip whip chip unhip inship rechip reship i ship unship v chip dadship overhip hagship fanship modchip manship skyship curship dogship donship
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