BIG BLUE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan

Synonyms:

Big Blue; BLU-82

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Big Blue" is a kind of...):

anti-personnel bomb; antipersonnel bomb; daisy cutter; fragmentation bomb (a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles)

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