| aerosol bomb n. A usually hand-held container or dispenser from which an aerosol is released. |   Pushing the plunger cap on an aerosol can opens a valve, allowing pressurized contents to flow up the tube and exit the nozzle as an aerosol spray. |
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| Noun | 1. |  aerosol bomb - a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive; "a thermobaric bomb can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb"bomb - an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions FAE, fuel-air explosive - a device consisting of a container of fuel and two explosive charges; the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen; the second charge detonates the cloud which creates an enormous blast wave and incinerates whatever is below |
| 2. |  aerosol bomb - a dispenser that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray (usually by means of a propellant gas)dispenser - a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts pepper spray - a nonlethal aerosol spray made with the pepper derivative oleoresin capiscum; used to cause temporary blindness and incapacitate an attacker; also used as a bear deterrent |
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