哑炮 yǎpào dud Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 哑炮 啞炮 yǎpào dud (military) a shell, firecracker, or explosive that fails to ignite or explode as expected flop; failure (figurative) something that fails to produce the intended effect; a damp squib; a joke or speech that falls flat Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.069 per million Cross-References Same as 瞎炮 xiāpào Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
哑炮 啞炮 yǎpào dud (military) a shell, firecracker, or explosive that fails to ignite or explode as expected flop; failure (figurative) something that fails to produce the intended effect; a damp squib; a joke or speech that falls flat Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.069 per million Cross-References Same as 瞎炮 xiāpào Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)