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fall-out shelter

fall-out shelter is the alternative form of fallout shelter.

Meaning of fallout shelter

Noun

fallout shelter (plural fallout shelters)

  1. A thick-walled building, usually under the ground, built so that people can keep away from radioactive dust after a nuclear explosion.

Forms of fall-out shelter

pluralfall-out shelters

Questions about fall-out shelter

What is fall-out shelter the alternative form of?
Fall-out shelter is the alternative form of fallout shelter.

Words near fall-out shelter in the dictionary

  1. fall-off
  2. fall-off analyses
  3. fall-off analysis
  4. fall-offs
  5. fall-out
  6. fall-out shelter
  7. fall-out shelters
  8. fall-outs
  9. fall-through
  10. fall-throughs
  11. fall-time

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