daisy cutter

daisy cutter

n

1. (Team Sports / Soccer) Soccer a powerful shot that moves close to the ground

2. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a powerful bomb with a huge blast effect

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	daisy cutter - 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 anti-personnel bomb, antipersonnel bomb, fragmentation bomb Big Blue, BLU-82 - 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 bomb - an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions cluster bomb - bomb consisting of a canister that is dropped from a plane and that opens to release a cluster of bomblets (usually fragmentation bombs) over a wide area; "cluster bombs cannot be targeted precisely"
	2.	daisy cutter - a batted or served ball that skims along close to the ground ball - the game of baseball athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition