explosive belt

English

Noun

explosive belt (plural explosive belts)

1. A belt packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by a suicide bomber.
   • 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:

     The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.

Synonyms

• suicide belt

Translations

belt with explosives, worn by suicide bombers

• Arabic: حِزَام نَاسِف m (ḥizām nāsif)
• French: ceinture explosive f
• German: Sprengstoffgürtel (de) m
• Polish: pas szahida (pl) m
• Swedish: bombbälte (sv) n

See also

• suicide vest