car bomb

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Noun

car bomb (plural car bombs)

1. An automobile laden with a large amount of explosives, and used as a bomb primarily in order to cause external damage.
2. An explosive device installed in an automobile with the primary purpose of killing the occupants of the car.
3. (slang) Flatulence in an enclosed automobile.
4. An alcoholic beverage made by dropping a shot of liquor into a glass of beer.

Synonyms

• (alcoholic beverage): boilermaker, depth charge

Hyponyms

• (alcoholic beverage): Irish car bomb

Translations

automobile made into a bomb

• Arabic: سَيَّارَةٌ مُفَخَّخَةٌ f (sayyāratun mufaḵḵaḵatun)
• Asturian: coche bomba m
• Catalan: cotxe bomba m
• Danish: bilbombe c
• Dutch: bomauto (nl) m
• Finnish: autopommi (fi)
• French: voiture piégée (fr) f
• German: Autobombe (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bilbombe (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: bilbombe f

• Polish: samochód-pułapka m or f
• Portuguese: carro-bomba (pt) m
• Spanish: coche bomba (es) m, auto bomba (es) m

explosive device installed in an automobile

• Afrikaans: motorbom
• Danish: bilbombe c
• Dutch: autobom (nl) f
• Finnish: autopommi (fi)
• German: Autobombe (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bilbombe (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: bilbombe f

• Portuguese: carro-bomba (pt) m
• Swedish: bilbomb (sv) c

flatulence in an enclosed automobile

alcoholic beverage

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