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Definition of Smoke grenade
1. Noun. A bomb that gives off thick smoke when it explodes; used to make a smoke screen or to mark a position.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoke Grenade
Literary usage of Smoke grenade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Warfare by Amos Alfred Fries, Clarence Jay West (1921)
"smoke grenade The smoke grenade is also designed for ... The method of firing
the smoke grenade is the same as that of any grenade using the same type of ..."
2. Gas Warfare by Edward Samuel Farrow (1920)
"The rifle smoke grenade is most effective in brush or wooded country, particularly
where the terrain is undulating, thus permitting a detachment of ..."
3. Chemical Warfare by Amos Alfred Fries, Clarence Jay West (1921)
"... Gas grenade 750000 smoke grenade 480000 Livens drum 30000 One point relating
to the casualties resulting from the work should perhaps be mentioned here. ..."
4. Howard's Hill and Other True Stories: Small Unit Marine Action in Vietnam by DIANE Publishing Company (1990)
"A Marine would pitch a yellow smoke grenade and no sooner would it billow than
a half a dozen clouds of yellow would filter from surrounding hedgerows. ..."
5. Do the Right Thing: The People's Economist Speaks by Walter Edward Williams (1995)
"The AJF video suggests that three of the agents were killed by one of their own,
who is shown tossing a smoke grenade into the room fellow agents just ..."
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