BUTTERFLY BOMB Definition & Meaning

butterfly bomb

noun

Military. a small, aerial, antipersonnel bomb with two folding wings that revolve, slowing the rate of descent and arming the fuze.

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Origin of butterfly bomb¹

First recorded in 1940–45

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That morning I was an antipersonnel mine, a butterfly bomb, unexploded and ticking, and he touched the fuse.

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Jong said he has come across a surprising variety of bombs and explained in detail one in particular - a “butterfly bomb” that used wing-like attachments to disperse small “bomblets” over a wider area.

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Very quickly Grimsby became "virtually paralysed" and at "an utter standstill" as the butterfly bomb's symbolic and actual power caused people to live in terror.

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