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From Dum Dum, a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from Hindiदम दम(dam dam) (Bengaliদমদম(domodom)), from Hindi दमदमा(damadmā, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”).
March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 267:
He related to us how the savages make bullets from the heart of a very hard wood cured by a special process. These bullets are only effectual when fired from a short range, and when they lodge in the flesh they explode like dumdum bullets.
(He here refers to Tim Soan, a Taiwanese aboriginal person)
