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Meanings of throwing star in English

Russian
сюрикен
Portuguese
shuriken
Spanish
shuriken
Catalan
shuriken
Wikidata

Class of Japanese handheld throwing weapons.

        сюрикен
        Synonyms
        Examples for "shuriken"
        Examples for "shuriken"
        1
        He gestured to the steel tray where the bloodied shuriken lay.
        Dead beat
        2
        Maybe a dozen silver shuriken left in my belt.
        The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny
        3
        Ms. Fate's hand snapped forward, and a silver shuriken sprouted suddenly from the wolf's left eye.
        The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny
        4
        The shuriken itself as an assault weapon would rate one-half shuriken on a scale of four.
        The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook
        5
        Now and again she'd throw handfuls of razor-edged shuriken where they would do the most good.
        Sharper than a serpent's tooth
        1
        Despite the ninja star, wrestling was number one in Jay's book, too.
        On Edge
        2
        I was willing to look past the fact that he wore huge tennis wristbands, because he had a ninja star!
        On Edge
        3
        Tambo International Airport, if it weren't for their intervention, we'd all be sitting next to ninja star-wielding passengers with pockets full of toy creepy crawlies.
        The South African
        4
        The explosion tore them right off their hinges, sent them flipping into the house like giant ninja stars.
        World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
        Usage of throwing star in English
        1
        She'd retrieved her throwing star, and she was polishing it on her pants leg.
        All together dead
        2
        Fate put his disposable razor back into her utility belt and produced a steel throwing star.
        Paths not taken
        3
        A shuriken is a throwing star-a shiny-steel, sharp-edged, sharp-pointedweapon from Japan (which is cyberpunk's original home in certain misty urban legends).
        The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook