| NOUN | artifact | BLU-82, Big Blue | a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius |
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| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonym | Big Blue | |
| Broader | fragmentation bomb, antipersonnel bomb, anti-personnel bomb, 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 |
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