improvised explosive device

(Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a home-made explosive device designed to maim, harass, or kill. Abbreviation: IED

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improvised explosive device

A device placed or fabricated in an improvised manner incorporating destuctive, lethal, noxious, pyrotechnic, or incendiary chemicals and designed to destroy, incapacitate, harass, or distract. It may incorporate military stores, but is normally devised from nonmilitary components. Also called IED.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Noun

improvised explosive device - an explosive device that is improvised

I.E.D., IED

explosive device - device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy

gasoline bomb, Molotov cocktail, petrol bomb - a crude incendiary bomb made of a bottle filled with flammable liquid and fitted with a rag wick

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