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banzai
adjective as in gung-ho/gung ho
noun as in war cry
Example Sentences
Fans shouted, “Chargers, Chargers, banzai! Banzai!” or “Cardinals, attack the ball!” according to UPI.
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.
“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.
The Japanese fired mortars and large artillery ahead of banzai charges by fearless soldiers willing to run into the Americans’ Browning machine guns.
“We decided it must be a banzai attack,” Gibbs recalled.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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