car bomb
Deadly automotive device
A car bomb is an explosive device concealed in or under a vehicle, detonated to kill occupants or bystanders.
Car bombs are associated with terrorism, assassination, and guerrilla warfare: The car bomb killed three soldiers and wounded a dozen civilians.
Separately, a car bomb is a drink made by dropping a shot glass into a pint of beer.
- terroristViolent political intimidator
- hijackingForcible seizure mid-transit
- Al-QaedaIslamist militant organization
- jihadIslamic struggle, inner or outer
- TroublesNorthern Ireland's violent era
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- bombingsIED, firebombing, bunker buster, air raid, blitz
- Terrorismterrorism, terror cell, suicide attack, terrorist, jihad
- Explosivesdynamite, grenade, TNT, C-4, land mine
- political violenceassassination, targeted killing, insurrection, summary execution, state terror
- Bomb DisposalEOD, blast suit, defusing, disarming, controlled detonation
- trapstrap, bear trap, mousetrap, rat trap, ant trap
car bomblandmine
Buried pressure-activated explosive
booby trap · suicide vest · aerial bomb · letter bomb · naval mine
car bombambulance
Emergency medical transport
armored personnel carrier · fire engine · rescue vehicle · mobile clinic
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