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In natural English speech, "gunpowder" appears in contexts such as: "i don't remember a summer like this no rain and so hot the dry grass was like gunpowder but it's the ground thawing that worries me there will be less dry land". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/ˈɡʌnˌpaʊdɚ/

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i don't remember a summer like this no rain and so hot the dry grass was like

gunpowder

but it's the ground thawing that worries me there will be less dry land

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noun

An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulfur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.

“They have been a bold, heroic, and purely self dependent nation, never having either courted,—or been subdued by—other Tribes or Europeans. But what early mind—a power—could face gunpowder and the ﬁrelocks? Hence their annihilation!”

noun

Ellipsis of gunpowder tea.

verb

To destroy with gunpowder.

“[…] he was […] never getting into quarrels with his neighbors and gunpowdering them out of house and home. His subjects loved him.”

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