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bomb squads

bomb squads is the plural of bomb squad.

Meaning of bomb squad

Noun

bomb squad (plural bomb squads)

  1. A division of a police force or the military responsible for safely defusing or detonating hazardous explosive devices.
    • They isolate; they evacuate the area; and they call the bomb squad. We then go in and do our examination.1978, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, Tagging of Explosives: Hearings Before the Subcommittee..., page 181
  2. A group of players who are deemed surplus to requirements by the club and are excluded from the first-team squad training.
    • Discontent can brew among what is sometimes known within football as ‘the bomb squad’ – the cabal of players who have been ‘bombed out’ by the manager.2016 October 26, Chris Flanagan, “Losing the dressing room: empty cliché or a real-life phenomenon?”, in FourFourTwo

Questions about bomb squads

What is bomb squads the plural of?
Bomb squads is the plural of bomb squad.

Words near bomb squads in the dictionary

  1. bomb shot
  2. bomb shots
  3. bomb site
  4. bomb sites
  5. bomb squad
  6. bomb squads
  7. bomb thrower
  8. bomb throwers
  9. bomb vessel
  10. bomb vessels
  11. bomb-ass

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