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Star Wars
noun
- a U.S. weapons research program begun in 1984 to explore technologies, including ground- and space-based lasers, for destroying attacking missiles and warheads.
Star Wars
noun
- Formal nameStrategic Defense Initiative (in the US) a proposed system of artificial satellites armed with lasers to destroy enemy missiles in space SDI
- modifier; sometimes not capitals of, relating to, or denoting this system
Star Wars defence
star wars policy
Star Wars
1- A series of popular science fiction motion pictures created by George Lucas. The first trilogy debuted in 1977 with Star Wars: A New Hope . The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi followed in the 1980s. Prequels, Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Episode 2: Attack of the Clones , were recently released. The films are noted for combining classic themes of good versus evil with cutting-edge special effects.
Star Wars
2- A popular name, taken from the title of a film, for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of President Ronald Reagan . “Star Wars” involves the development by the United States of a defense in outer space against intercontinental ballistic missiles .
Word History and Origins
Origin of Star Wars1
Example Sentences
In “Star Wars,” it’s kind of a flying scorpion.
After “Empire,” Star Wars itself couldn’t escape the chokehold of cliché.
He started “Star Wars” as a self-absorbed teenager who refused to help Princess Leia, sputtering, “It’s not that I like the Empire — I hate it — but there’s nothing I can do about it right now.”
In an early cut of 1977’s “Star Wars,” George Lucas included a shaggy, chatty “Graffiti”-esque sequence between Luke Skywalker and one of his Tatooine pals, Biggs, who tells him, “I’m not going to wait for the Empire to draft me into service. The Rebellion is spreading and I want to be on the right side.”
“Star Wars” ends with victory and medals, but the Dark Side is rarely beaten head-on.
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