bulletproof
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- IPA (key): /bʊl.ɪtpruːf/
Audio (AU) (file) - Hyphenation: bul‧let‧proof
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- (transitive) If you bulletproof something, you make it able to resist bullets.
- The engineers are trying to bulletproof the president's vehicle now.
- (transitive) (slang) If you bulletproof something, you make it resistant to failure.
- We have to bulletproof this program before we let the users at it; check every input, catch every possible flaw … it must not fail in use.