Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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daisy cutter | Yes | No | No | No |
BLU-82 | Yes | No | No | No |
daisy cutter (noun) | BLU-82 (noun) |
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a batted or served ball that skims along close to the ground | 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 |
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 |