SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does search and destroy mission mean? 

• SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSION (noun)
  The noun SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSION has 1 sense:

1. an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam; troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them

  Familiarity information: SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam; troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("search and destroy mission" is a kind of...):

military mission; mission (an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters)