buzz bomb

American  

noun

Military.

1. a type of self-steering aerial bomb, launched from large land-based rocket platforms: used by the Germans in World War II, especially over England.

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buzz bomb British  

noun

1. another name for the V-1

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Etymology

Origin of buzz bomb

First recorded in 1940–45

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Example Sentences

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buzz bomb

Doak is still a teenager and hasn’t played a competitive game since last December, but he was a buzz bomb on the right.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024

There's clearly nothing that Rangers can do to defuse the buzz bomb that is Kyogo Furuhashi.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2023

These jet-propelled, sub-sonic unmanned airplanes are descendants of the German V-1 buzz bomb.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2014

These jet-propelled, subsonic unmanned airplanes are descendants of the German V-1 buzz bomb.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2013

Of those paleolithic days, few relics remain at the Cape except a blue-painted, Maltese-crossed V-l buzz bomb, and Debus, now NASA's Kennedy Space Center director.

From Time Magazine Archive

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