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explosive belts

explosive belts is the plural of explosive belt.

Meaning of explosive belt

Noun

explosive belt (plural explosive belts)

  1. A belt packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by a suicide bomber.
    • The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport...2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    suicide belt

Questions about explosive belts

What is explosive belts the plural of?
Explosive belts is the plural of explosive belt.

Words near explosive belts in the dictionary

  1. explosionproof
  2. explosions
  3. explosiony
  4. explosive
  5. explosive belt
  6. explosive belts
  7. explosive cyclogeneses
  8. explosive cyclogenesis
  9. explosive decompression
  10. explosive decompressions
  11. explosive gelatin

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