English

Adjective

battleshippy ‎(comparative more battleshippy, superlative most battleshippy)

1. (nonce word) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a battleship.
   • 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Military procurement authorization fiscal year 1962: Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-Seventh Congress, first session, on Department of Defense programs and authorization of appropriations for procurement of aircraft, missiles, and naval vessels by the Armed Forces ...

     But if you put a carrier up as a second strike strategic potential in a nuclear all-out war, I must say that is a little battleshippy to me, or the long-range subsonic bomber so far as the future is concerned.