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
It occurs to me that French Louis said he couldn't tally out all the sticks of giant powder that he'd stowed away a week or two ago.
From Thurston of Orchard Valley by Dunton, W. Herbert
The rivermen, gathering close, saw that the bundle around the end of the sapling consisted of a dozen rolls of giant powder from which dangled a short fuse.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
And by the way, Morris," called Glover—Blood already twenty feet away was scrambling down the path—"if Ed Smith's got any giant powder borrow sticks enough to spring thirty or forty holes with, will you?
From The Daughter of a Magnate by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
An' you've got some giant powder on board.
From Doubloons—and the Girl by Forbes, John Maxwell
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