BIG BLUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Big Blue mean? 

• BIG BLUE (noun)
  The noun BIG BLUE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BIG BLUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIG BLUE (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Big Blue; BLU-82

Hypernyms ("Big Blue" is a kind of...):

anti-personnel bomb; antipersonnel bomb; daisy cutter; fragmentation bomb (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)

 Context examples 

It flew open, and there he stood in his dressing gown, with a big blue sock on one hand and a darning needle in the other.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Often, as I still lay at the bottom and kept no more than an eye above the gunwale, I would see a big blue summit heaving close above me; yet the coracle would but bounce a little, dance as if on springs, and subside on the other side into the trough as lightly as a bird.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

That comes of having big blue eyes and loving music, said Jo, trying to soothe Beth, who trembled and looked more excited than she had ever been before.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If Meg had four, the house wouldn't hold them, and master and missis would have to camp in the garden, broke in Jo, who, enveloped in a big blue pinafore, was giving the last polish to the door handles.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Then you may come, and I'll teach you to knit as the Scotchmen do. There's a demand for socks just now," added Jo, waving hers like a big blue worsted banner as they parted at the gate.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)