Word.ws English Dictionary

Gravel Gertie

Gravel Gertie noun: a chamber, with a roof covered by a deep pile of gravel, within which nuclear warheads may be maintained; in the event of a (non-nuclear) explosion, the roof is weakened and the gravel falls and prevents the escape of nuclear material.

Noun

Gravel Gertie (plural Gravel Gerties)

  1. A chamber, with a roof covered by a deep pile of gravel, within which nuclear warheads may be maintained; in the event of a (non-nuclear) explosion, the roof is weakened and the gravel falls and prevents the escape of nuclear material

Forms of Gravel Gertie

pluralGravel Gerties

Origin of Gravel Gertie

From a character in the Dick Tracy comic strip.

Questions about Gravel Gertie

What does Gravel Gertie mean?
Gravel Gertie means a chamber, with a roof covered by a deep pile of gravel, within which nuclear warheads may be maintained; in the event of a (non-nuclear) explosion, the roof is weakened and the gravel falls and prevents the escape of nuclear material.
What part of speech is Gravel Gertie?
Gravel Gertie is a noun.
What is the plural of Gravel Gertie?
The plural of Gravel Gertie is Gravel Gerties.

Words near Gravel Gertie in the dictionary

  1. gravel bike
  2. gravel bikes
  3. gravel cruncher
  4. gravel crunchers
  5. gravel cycling
  6. Gravel Gertie
  7. Gravel Gerties
  8. gravel nest
  9. gravel nests
  10. gravel pit
  11. gravel pits

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Gravel Gertie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Gravel Gertie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gravel_gertie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.