Torpedo

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Torpedo may refer to: Brand / Companies

• Torpedo (tractor) tractors

Transport:

• Torpedo (car) car body style. An early form of usually large touring coachwork with smooth shape from front to rear
• Railroad torpedo, a device to warn approaching trains upon entering protected tracksections
• Narco torpedo, a type of clandestine towed underwater barge used for illicit cargos

Weapons: A torpedo (weapon), or locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled explosive projectile that operates underwater.

• Formerly a naval mine, a stationary explosive device placed in water, to destroy vessels
• land torpedo, an obsolete term for land mine
• "Aerial torpedo", a naval term for early flying bombs and pilotless aircraft weapons
• Aerial torpedo, a self-propelled torpedo dropped into the water from aircraft
• Bangalore torpedo, an explosive device for land use
• Human torpedo, also called "Chariot", a variety of swimmer delivery vehicle of World War Two.

Other:

• Torpedo (petroleum), explosive used in an oil well to start or increase the flow of oil
• Torpedo, Pennsylvania
• "Torpedo", 1920s slang for a hit man or "hired gun"
• "Torpedo", in American cigar slang, a cigar with a pointed tip, also called a pyramid or belicoso
• A type of drinking game (see wikipedia:shotgunning)
• A thirteen-inch sandwich sold by Quizno's starting in 2009 and one of the many slang terms for a submarine sandwich in general.
• A US beer keg with a capacity of 5.23 US gallons
• Liquorice torpedo