giant powder
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of giant powder
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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I sense there is a giant powder field that no one has touched yet, and I am going after it.
From Forbes • Nov. 2, 2011
The threat always made Old Man Hinds jump like the close explosion of a stick of giant powder.
From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline
Boulders were rolled down from the mountain-side, hurled into the bottom of the cañon by blasts of giant powder and dynamite, gripped with rapidly adjusted log-chains, and dragged to their places by straining horses.
From Under Handicap A Novel by Gregory, Jackson
A suspect, chiefly because he's tied up with that anarchist crowd out there—an analyst of explosives, a chemist, cursed by this hideous accident—dangerous as giant powder itself!
From The Gray Mask by Camp, Wadsworth
The detonation of the twelve full sticks of giant powder was terrific.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
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