| 单词 | gas-pipe bomb |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgas-pipe bomb gas-pipe bomb n. U.S. a bomb made by packing explosives and projectiles into a length of gas pipe; cf. pipe bomb n. at pipe n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1886 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 5 Jan. 3/4 H. Neilson, local agent of the Giant Powder Company, examined the gas-pipe bombs and pronounced the contents to be giant powder, purchased from his office. 1958 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 19 Aug. 1/7 Two gas-pipe bombs, found at a Wichita minister's home... The bombs ‘are definitely lethal’—made of seven-inch lengths of ¾-inch gas pipe and loaded with a home-made mixture of gunpowder. 1990 J. R. Nash Encycl. World Crime II. 1139/2 In March Faust was reunited with his gas-pipe bombs in the courtroom of Judge Matthew Hartigan. < as lemmas |
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