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Mother of all Bombs

Mother of all Bombs noun: a type of large-yield conventional bomb, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast.

Noun

Mother of all Bombs (uncountable)

  1. A type of large-yield conventional bomb, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast.

Origin of Mother of all Bombs

From a reinterpretation of the acronym MOAB (originally for "Massive Ordnance Air Blast"), using the mother of all construction.

Words formed from Mother of all Bombs

Questions about Mother of all Bombs

What does Mother of all Bombs mean?
Mother of all Bombs means a type of large-yield conventional bomb, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast.
What part of speech is Mother of all Bombs?
Mother of all Bombs is a noun.

Words near Mother of all Bombs in the dictionary

  1. mother may I
  2. Mother Monster
  3. mother naked
  4. mother nature
  5. mother of all
  6. Mother of all Bombs
  7. Mother of all Budgets
  8. mother of chapel
  9. mother of coal
  10. Mother of God
  11. Mother of Mercy

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