car bomb

noun

: an explosive device concealed in an automobile for use as a weapon of terrorism

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Celtic Women Held Sway in ‘Matrilocal’ Societies But what led him to build a makeshift car bomb and to take his own life is the focus of the investigation by local and federal agencies. Dave Philipps, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025 That passport had gone through Munich in 2014, where a car bomb killed a member of Chechen intelligence, and to Paris in 2015, where a Palestinian human-rights lawyer was killed. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024 In 1998, Anderson’s mother, Heather, a schoolteacher, was on a shopping trip in the town of Omagh and only narrowly avoided being caught up in a devastating explosion from a car bomb. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025 Finn himself faces a tragic end in the season finale, when—spoiler alert—he is killed by a car bomb alongside his mother. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for car bomb

Word History

First Known Use

1923, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of car bomb was in 1923

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“Car bomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/car%20bomb. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.

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