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Daisy Cutter

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Noun

1. anti-personnel bomb, antipersonnel bomb, daisy cutter, fragmentation bomb

a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles

2. daisy cutter

a batted or served ball that skims along close to the ground

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Daisy Cutter

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noun
1. soccer
a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
2. cricket
a ball bowled, kicked, or hit so that it rolls along the ground
3. 
a powerful bomb with a huge blast effect

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Daisy Cutter

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n.
Slang
A very large conventional bomb delivered by aircraft and designed to explode a short distance above the ground, with the blast damage concentrated at ground level in a radius extending for hundreds of feet.

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