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Frompéter +‎-ard.

• IPA^(key): /pe.taʁ/

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pétard m (pluralpétards)

1. firecracker (firework)[from 1495]
   • 2023 November 12, “Football. Hoffenheim réagit au lancer de pétard qui a causé l’interruption du match à Augsbourg”, inOuest France:

     Ce dimanche 12 novembre, le club allemand d’Hoffenheim a publié un communiqué pour condamner le lancer depétard ayant causé l’interruption pendant sept minutes de la rencontre face à Augbsbourg, à l’occasion de la 11e journée de Bundesliga (1-1).

     This Sunday, November 12, the German club Hoffenheim published a press release to condemn the throwing of afirecracker which caused the interruption for seven minutes of the match against Augsburg, on the occasion of the 11th day of the Bundesliga (1-1).

2. sensationalnews;scandal[from 1835]

   Synonym:bombe

   lancer unpétard ―to cause ascandal (literally, “to throw afirecracker”)

3. (slang)joint (marijuana cigarette)

   Synonym:joint

   Je fume pas mal depétards. ―I smoke a lot ofjoints.

4. (slang)revolver[from 1847]

   Synonym:flingue

5. (slang)buttocks;ass[from 1847]

   Synonym:(Quebec)péteux

   • 1936, Louis-Ferdinand Céline,Mort à crédit [Death on Credit], Paris: Denoël, page255:

     Elle avait pas vingt piges la môme et des petits nénés insolents… et la taille de guêpe… et unpétard comme je les aime, tendu, musclé, bien fendu.

     The chick wasn't twenty years old, and little insolent tits… and a wasp waist… and anass just the way I like, taut, muscled, well-split.

6. (slang)sexyman orwoman

   Synonyms:bombe sexuelle(of a woman),étalon(of a man)

7. (attributive, of colors)bright;shiny;eyecatching

• → Italian:petardo
• → Spanish:petardo

pétard

1. (slang)An interjection of surprise.

   Synonym:putain

• “pétard”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

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