noun. A Japanese pilot trained in World War II to make a suicidal crash attack, especially upon a ship.

noun. An airplane loaded with explosives to be piloted in a suicide attack.

noun. An extremely reckless person who seems to court death.

adjective. Of or relating to a suicidal air attack.

adjective. So reckless in behavior or actions as to be suicidal.

noun. An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.

noun. One who makes an attack requiring his suicide, especially when done with an aircraft.

noun. a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II

noun. a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash

"When Japan was in equally desperate straits in 1944, using the word kamikaze for the suicide pilots was not for nothing."