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bombie

bombie noun: a bomblet from a cluster bomb.

Noun

bombie (plural bombies)

  1. (Laos) A bomblet from a cluster bomb.
    • Bombies were everywhere, as plentiful as seashells at the beach and sold the same way conch shells are in Florida.2007, Phil Karber, The IndoChina Chronicles: Travels in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
    • They knew about the bombies as well as the fun of soccer that they played almost every day. The American cluster bombs dropped during the Vietnam War were scattered over the Laotian countryside by the millions.2009, Henry Pelifian, Stellar Energies to America, page 119

Forms of bombie

pluralbombies

Origin of bombie

From bomb + -ie.

Questions about bombie

What does bombie mean?
Bombie means a bomblet from a cluster bomb.
What part of speech is bombie?
Bombie is a noun.
What is the plural of bombie?
The plural of bombie is bombies.

Words near bombie in the dictionary

  1. bombesins
  2. bombic
  3. bombic acid
  4. bombiccite
  5. bombiculture
  6. bombie
  7. Bombieri-Friedlander-Iwaniec theorem
  8. bombies
  9. bombil
  10. bombilate
  11. bombilated

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