| 单词 | sticky bomb |
| 释义 | > as lemmassticky bomb sticky bomb n. (during the Second World War (1939–45)) an anti-tank grenade covered with an adhesive substance to make it stick to its target; (in later use) any bomb designed to stick to its target. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade trombe1562 grenade1591 grenado1611 granata1637 hand grenade1637 bag-granado1638 shell1647 glass-grenade1664 globe1672 flask1769 petrol bomb1903 rifle grenade1909 hairbrush1916 Mills1916 pineapple bomb1916 stick grenade1917 fragmentation bomb1918 pineapple1918 potato-masher grenade1925 spitball1925 Molotov cocktail1940 sticky bomb1940 stick-bomb1941 red devila1944 stun grenade1977 flash-bang1982 1940 W. S. Churchill Let. 6 June in Second World War (1949) II. i. viii. 149 It is of the utmost importance to find some projectile which can be fired from a rifle at a tank... The ‘sticky’ bomb seems to be useful for..this. 1941 Daily Mirror 9 July 8/2 ‘Sticky bombs’ are now being used by the British forces against Vichy armoured units in Syria. 1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File vi. 38 It was a sticky bomb about as big as two cans of soup end to end; on impact its very small explosive charge spread a sort of napalm through tank visors. 2012 M. R. Gordon & B. E. Trainor Endgame xxvi. 502 While he was gone a ‘sticky bomb’ attached to the back of his chair exploded. < as lemmas |
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