HyperDic: big_blue

English > 1 sense of the expression Big Blue:
NOUNartifactBig Blue, BLU-82a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius
English > Big Blue: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
MeaningA 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.
SynonymBLU-82
Broaderfragmentation bomb, antipersonnel bomb, anti-personnel bomb, daisy cutterA 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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