giant powder
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of giant powder
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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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's a giant powder, a million times stronger nor mine."
From In Old Kentucky by Edward Marshall
It looks as if we'd have to put some giant powder in.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
Ten minutes after it had rolled forth upon the trestle at the "lower crossing" the giant powder had been transferred to poling-boats and the long pull against the current had begun.
From The Iron Trail by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Some hundred yards west of the cabin was the mouth of a tunnel into which we had drifted with pick, shovel and giant powder, a distance of 300 feet in five months of hard toil.
From Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew by Robert McReynolds
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