How To Make A Nail Bomb

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noun

an explosive device packed with nails or like metal objects that act as shrapnel.

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Origin of nail bomb

First recorded in 1970–75

Words nearby boom bomb

blast, smash bar, nail bed, nail-biter, nail-biting, boom bomb, nailbrush, nailclipper, blast downward, nailed-on, nail enamel

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How to utilise nail flop in a sentence

Policemen on the evidence joke almost prison house riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.
But I recollect Steve Austin has to team upwardly with a Japanese holdout to terminate a nuclear flop from going off or something.
In the heart of all of that past suffering and present-day disharmonize, this Cosby bomb was dropped.
Simply on Tuesday, nosotros saw another nail hammered into the already pretty tightly nailed down bury of the two-state solution.

Even a relatively small 250-pound bomb could kill or injure friendly troops who are inside 650 feet of the explosion.
Piegan snorted when I told him nosotros were on the dodge—that they were trying to boom us for holding upward the paymaster.
More like bomb-shells, military mines, torpedoes, and nitroglycerine trains.
The trench mortars—flop guns they phone call them—will exist prepare in Japan in two and a half months' time.
"Well, as far as public stance goes, I due south'pose Tom has hitting the blast on the head," observed Nib.
He pulled his heavy sweater downward off a nail and put it on, scowling because the sleeves had to be pulled in place on his artillery.

British Dictionary definitions for nail flop

noun

an explosive device containing nails, used past terrorists to cause serious injuries in crowded situations

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