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explosive belt en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A belt packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by a suicide bomber.
   • The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006. 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Relateds

suicide vest

Synonyms

suicide belt

Translations (5)

ar حِزَام نَاسِف (belt with explosives, worn by suicide bombers) · pl pas szahida (belt with explosives, worn by suicide bombers) · sv bombbälte (belt with explosives, worn by suicide bombers) · fr ceinture explosive (belt with explosives, worn by suicide bombers) · de Sprengstoffgürtel (belt with explosives, worn by suicide bombers)