Definition of Pipe bomb

1. Noun. A small homemade bomb usually contained in a metal pipe.

Generic synonyms: Bomb

Definition of Pipe bomb

1. Noun. an improvised explosive device consisting of blasting powder encased in a metal pipe to increase the blast effect. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipe Bomb

pipa
pipage
pipages
pipal
pipal tree
pipals
pipamazine
pipamperone
pipas
pipazethate
pipe
pipe-clay
pipe-opener
pipe-openers
pipe-smoker's cancer
pipe bomb
pipe bombs
pipe bone
pipe bowl
pipe clamp
pipe cleaner
pipe cleaners
pipe cutter
pipe down
pipe dream
pipe dreams
pipe fitter
pipe fitting
pipe in
pipe major

Literary usage of Pipe bomb

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. School Violence: Views of Students & the Community: Congressional Hearings edited by Michael Castle (2001)
"And so, when you can make a pipe bomb with standard, ordinary, everyday materials- Ms. Woolsey. Mr. Welsh, I said explosives. If they weren't part of it too ..."

2. The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation Into Laboratory Practices and Alleged by Michael R. Bromwich (1998)
"46, however, Higgins replaced this sentence with the following: .230 These results are consistent with a pipe bomb containing a main charge of Pyrodex and ..."

3. State of the Nation: South Africa 2004-2005 by John Daniel, Roger Southall, Jessica Lutchman (2005)
"In the first ten months of 1998 there were 80 pipe bomb explosions in the Western Cape, which killed 11 people, a further 165 incidents of urban violence ..."

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