The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CATAPULT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result CATAPULT
- Weapon a touch in fashion
- Primitive weapon has a gentle hit stopping movement
- Weapon religious group deployed round a water source
- Send flying 22 a bug?
- Animal carrying bug: extremely unusual weapon
- Sect conceals a blow from weapon
- Odd chap turning up at officer’s fling
- Missile launcher fitted to aircraft carriers
- Throw a bug into school
- Kitty and Paul arranged basement for secret fling
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What does CATAPULT mean?
CATAPULT noun- A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects, such as a mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck.
- Slingshot
- An instance of firing a missile from a catapult.
- An instance of firing something, as if from a catapult.
- To fire a missile from a catapult.
- To fire or launch something, as if from a catapult.
- To increase the status of something rapidly.
- To be fired from a catapult or as if from a catapult.
- To have one's status increased rapidly.