banzai
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1. banzai - Noun
2. banzai - Adjective
3. banzai - Interjection
Meaning
a Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph
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Along with the house featuring the furniture of the former occupants, they discover Emily (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension‘s Mariclare Costello) squatting on the property.
Although Kuribayashi had forbidden the suicide charges familiar with other battles in the Pacific, the commander of the area decided on a banzai charge with the optimistic goal of recapturing Mount Suribachi.
Buckaroo Banzai and his band, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, perform the song at a bar early in the movie, but the song itself (which was a 3 4 time sped-up instrumental version) was actually recorded by Billy Vera and the Beaters.
Nicknamed the "Mexican Pipeline" due to the similar power and shape of the Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu, the wave that breaks on Zicatela Beach draws an international crowd of surfers, bodyboarders and their entourages.
He flies to Saipan and visits Banzai Cliff — the site of his parents' suicide during the American invasion of the island at the close of World War II — to buy a large tract of land.
Kuribayashi, who had argued against banzai attacks at the start of the battle, realized that defeat was imminent.