buffalo
n.— «“So if it’s an artillery shell we can see that,” McPhail says, “and then you send your buffalo up there which has this big claw, and it sort of just claws at it and makes sure it is what we think it is.” The buffalo in question is the fourth vehicle in the patrol, towering over the armored trucks.» —“Deadly Concentration: Finding IEDs at Night” by Corey Flintoff National Public Radio Dec. 26, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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