smart bomb
Meanings
noun
- A kind of guided missile.
- A guided air-dropped bomb.
- A weapon that damages or kills all enemies within a large area.
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Etymology
From smart + bomb. Since the 1980s. Guided bombs are a hypernymous class that began earlier (with dumber types), but computerized precision-guided bombs called by the name smart bomb were newfangled novelties in the 1980s.
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