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smoke bombs

smoke bombs is the plural of smoke bomb.

Meaning of smoke bomb

Noun

smoke bomb (plural smoke bombs)

  1. A firework designed to produce smoke upon ignition.
    • It was the morning of the Fourth of July and kids were lighting smoke bombs, sulfurous coils of red and green, the colors dense and bright like concentrated dye blooming through water.2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 11, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, published 2014, page 56
  2. An explosive or incendiary device designed to emit smoke in order to mark a position or produce a smokescreen.
    • Smoke bombs would be used. The thick fumes resulting from their explosion between the lines would cover our advance.1916, Patrick MacGill, chapter 3, in The Great Push: An Episode of the Great War, London: Herbert Jenkins, page 48

Questions about smoke bombs

What is smoke bombs the plural of?
Smoke bombs is the plural of smoke bomb.

Words near smoke bombs in the dictionary

  1. smoke blower
  2. smoke blowers
  3. smoke board
  4. smoke boards
  5. smoke bomb
  6. smoke bombs
  7. smoke bush
  8. smoke consumer
  9. smoke consumers
  10. smoke damper
  11. smoke deflector

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