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Definition of daisy-cutter in English: daisy-cutternoun informal 1British (in sport) a ball hit or bowled so as to roll along the ground. Example sentencesExamples - Some of us can recall when a daisy-cutter was a small, red ball skipping low across the turf, rather than a large black one containing several thousand pounds of penetrative explosives.
- Clearly Ricky Ponting's hoping McGrath will produce the sort of daisy-cutter that got Vaughan out in the first innings.
2An immensely powerful aerial bomb that derives its destructive power from the mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder with air. Example sentencesExamples - And the world will not sit idly by while they flatten the region with daisy-cutters and hyperbolic bombs.
- For the recalcitrants, the hell-on-earth of daisy-cutters, thermobaric bombs and the everlasting half-life of the waste from nuclear detonations.
- There isn't the heavy equipment to go into those caves, and take down tons of rubble from those daisy-cutter bombs.
- In the years to come we may well see far more nightmarish things in our military arsenal than bunker-busters and daisy-cutters.
- Otherwise, they might be stationed at sites where they would come down with a case of anthrax or botulism before encountering an American daisy-cutter.
Origin Late 18th century (in the sense ‘a horse that lifts its feet only slightly from the ground’): in daisy-cutter (sense 2 of the noun), so named because the bomb explodes just above ground level. Definition of daisy-cutter in US English: daisy-cutternoun informal An immensely powerful aerial bomb that derives its destructive power from the mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder with air. Example sentencesExamples - There isn't the heavy equipment to go into those caves, and take down tons of rubble from those daisy-cutter bombs.
- For the recalcitrants, the hell-on-earth of daisy-cutters, thermobaric bombs and the everlasting half-life of the waste from nuclear detonations.
- Otherwise, they might be stationed at sites where they would come down with a case of anthrax or botulism before encountering an American daisy-cutter.
- And the world will not sit idly by while they flatten the region with daisy-cutters and hyperbolic bombs.
- In the years to come we may well see far more nightmarish things in our military arsenal than bunker-busters and daisy-cutters.
Origin Late 18th century (in the sense ‘a horse that lifts its feet only slightly from the ground’); the bomb is so named because it explodes just above ground level. |