The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SALVO
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More clues leading to the result SALVO
- Burst ball seen after Slav fouled
- Girl, see, with ball that’s burst
- Verse in artistic gathering releasing new attack
- Burst lotion almost beginning to ooze
- Burst of hail almost over
- Leaders of soldiers always like volley of concentrated fire
- Portuguese saint riddled with 55 shots
- A part of reprisal volley?
- Organised discharge of colossal volume
- Volley of colossal volume
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What does SALVO mean?
SALVO noun- An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
- A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
- A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
- (by extension) Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
- The combined cheers of a crowd.
- To discharge weapons in a salvo.