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suitcase nuke

suitcase nuke noun: a portable tactical nuclear weapon.

suitcase nuke: a portable tactical nuclear weapon
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Noun

suitcase nuke (plural suitcase nukes)

  1. A portable tactical nuclear weapon.
    • Tactical nuclear weapons, known as “suitcase nukes”, are smaller than strategic ones and can be deployed at short range for battlefield use, though Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus's strongman leader, said this week that the warheads were three times more powerful than the bombs the US dropped on...[2023 June 17, Max Seddon, “Nuclear arms sent to Belarus, says Putin”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2
    Synonyms:
    backpack nuke, snuke, mini-nuke, pocket nuke

Synonyms of suitcase nuke

Forms of suitcase nuke

pluralsuitcase nukes

Questions about suitcase nuke

What does suitcase nuke mean?
Suitcase nuke means a portable tactical nuclear weapon.
What part of speech is suitcase nuke?
Suitcase nuke is a noun.
What is the plural of suitcase nuke?
The plural of suitcase nuke is suitcase nukes.

Words near suitcase nuke in the dictionary

  1. suitablenesses
  2. suitably
  3. suitcase
  4. suitcase farmer
  5. suitcase farmers
  6. suitcase nuke
  7. suitcase nukes
  8. suitcased
  9. suitcaseful
  10. suitcasefuls
  11. suitcaselike

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