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BIG BLUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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