dynamiter
Americannoun
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dynamiters
plural
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a person who uses dynamite or other explosives to blow things up.
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a person who thoroughly and suddenly destroys a specified thing.
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James B. McNamara never intended to be a dynamiter.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the Philharmonic, he gradually broadened his repertoire to include a variety of musical styles; in opera the would-be dynamiter turned out to be an effective Wagnerian.
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Foxes are those who sell by mail; the dynamiter works by telephone.
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A fellow dynamiter named Matthew Schmidt also got life.
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Among them were the much talked-of dynamiter, Vesuvius, and the beautiful little cruiser, Helena.
From The Colored Regulars in the United States Army by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
The roustabouts, cat jockeys, bulldozers, greasers, welders, dynamiters, mixers, drillers, riggers, still pressed for time, worked on, unmindful of little ceremonies and speeches before movie cameras.
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Drillers and dynamiters have been at work on it for nearly five years.
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Two weeks later, far from dead and hoping to see his sweetheart, Gomez was railroading in a gondola car with some of Villa's dynamiters.
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To forestall alarm or to help the search for dynamiters, blacked-out Munich was suddenly lit up.
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This makes me think of our camp in the forest near the Elk City reservoir, when we were hot on the trail of the dynamiters.
From The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol by Lewis E. Theiss
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