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Related topics: Bombs & terrorism
ˈcar bomb noun [countableC]
SCBa bomb hidden inside a car 汽车炸弹
Examples from the Corpus
car bomb• He had an idea there had been a car bomb at another barracks.• Tough boss John McMichael was blown up by a car bomb outside his home in 1987.• In a weekend of violence, the defence minister, Khaled Nezzar, narrowly escaped from a car bomb attack.• For the first time here in recent years, a car bomb was used against a civilian official.• A car bomb explodes in Main Street, destroying scores of shops and businesses.• Suddenly the phone rings: a suspect car bomb in the city centre.