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car bomb
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car bomb
n.
A car wired with explosives that are then detonated, as by remote control, so as to kill persons or destroy property nearby.
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Noun1.car bomb - a bomb placed in a car and wired to explode when the ignition is started or by remote control or by a timing device
bomb - an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
Translations
car bomb n → coche-bomba m
car bomb n → voiture piégée
car bomb n → Autobombe f
car bomb n → ordigno esplosivo collocato in una macchina;
a car bomb went off yesterday → ieri è esplosa un'autobomba
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By the turn of the century, Islamic terrorists had car-bombed a U.
STRONG REMINDER U.S. APPEASEMENTS COULD BE DISASTROUS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The last crushed bodies had scarcely been extricated from the car-bombed carnage of the American embassies in Dar es-Salaam and Nairobi when the cry went up to harden security at 280 U.
Embassies at risk by Hempstone, Smith / The National Interest
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