Definition of "tank destroyer" []

• A high-speed armored vehicle equipped with antitank guns. (noun)

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• "Before long they would swear by the new tank destroyer and its powerful gun, which possessed great penetrative capability and was extremely accurate."
• "The tank destroyer was a Panzer IV chassis with a fixed superstructure housing the 8. 8cm gun, the long barrel of which gave it the appearance of a giant, prehistoric elephant."
• "Unteroffizier Kötter, driver of the platoon leader's tank destroyer Falke, passed comment on the hellish noise of the Russian artillery."