car bombn.
/ˈkɑː bɒm/, U.S. /ˈkɑr ˌbɑm/ A bomb concealed in or under a car, esp. by terrorists.
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1923 Los Angeles Times 25 June ii. 1/6 (headline) Wealthy Scion Nabbed As Car Bomb Death Suspect... Van Tassel..was almost instantly killed yesterday when a bomb secreted in his car exploded.
1972 Times 18 May 1/1 The explosion of a car bomb without warning in a loyalist street.
1986 Daily Tel. 16 June 1/1 The government blamed the outlawed African National Congress for a car bomb explosion in central Durban that killed three women and injured 68 other people.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 11 June a24/3 Recent cases of so-called homegrown terrorism, like the Times Square car bomb episode, have increased anxieties, experts say.
Derivatives
ˈcar bombing n. an incidence of the use of a car bomb.
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1970 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 3 Sept. 30/1 (headline) Two killed in Athens car bombing.
1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 9 Oct. a15/2 It is the fifth car bombing in a week.
2001 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 19 Apr. 2 A Ramallah-based terrorist ring responsible for two recent car bombings in the capital.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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