GENERAL-PURPOSE BOMB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does general-purpose bomb mean? 

• GENERAL-PURPOSE BOMB (noun)
  The noun GENERAL-PURPOSE BOMB has 1 sense:

1. a large bomb (500 to 2,000 pounds that is 50% explosive) whose explosion creates a blast and whose metal casing creates some fragmentation effect

  Familiarity information: GENERAL-PURPOSE BOMB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENERAL-PURPOSE BOMB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large bomb (500 to 2,000 pounds that is 50% explosive) whose explosion creates a blast and whose metal casing creates some fragmentation effect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

general-purpose bomb; GP bomb

Hypernyms ("general-purpose bomb" is a kind of...):

bomb (an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "general-purpose bomb"):

blockbuster (a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block))