M-80
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“It’s maybe an M-80 or a cherry bomb, but the explosion wasn’t just like a firecracker or an M-80, it actually had some pyrotechnics to it, so it was fairly large.”
From Los Angeles Times
Chris Strouth, a composer and filmmaker, spent years searching for the videotapes of M-80, a groundbreaking 1979 two-day music marathon staged in Minneapolis.
From New York Times
Outfitting an assassin of the C-suite in an item of apparel typically associated with doting grandfathers and white-haired Irish poets is a mordant costume choice, like slipping an M-80 firecracker into an Easter flower arrangement.
From New York Times
As a child, his siblings tied him to a stump in their backyard and made him watch as they blew up hamsters, gerbils and cats with M-80 firecrackers because they knew he loved animals, Castellano said.
From Fox News
His head should have been in the exact spot where the firecracker, which Freddie described as an M-80 exploded.
From Los Angeles Times
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