Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The manufacture of bombs.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

bomb +‎ making

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word bombmaking.

Examples

  • This is the America that eight years of the Bush administration have brought us, a place where dissent is no longer tolerated, where pre-emptive strikes have become the strategy of choice for those who hold power, where any group can be accused of 'bombmaking' or 'terrorism' on no evidence whatsoever in order to deter dissent.

    RNC2-Raid on the Convergence Center 2008

  • And that they taught him "bombmaking" that was actually just total non-explosive duds, and they set him up?

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • And that they taught him "bombmaking" that was actually just total non-explosive duds, and they set him up?

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • And that they taught him "bombmaking" that was actually just total non-explosive duds, and they set him up?

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • The 28-year-old son of a retired soldier, Asiri is seen by US intelligence as the primary bombmaking expert for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, having constructed the "underpants bomb" used in the failed suicide attack by a Nigerian on an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day.

    Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri: the prime bombmaking suspect Chris McGreal 2010

  • Among them:•On March 1, U.S. and Afghan troops in Kandahar seized 20,000 pounds of bombmaking fertilizer, 15 heavy machine guns and ammunition and five rocket-propelled grenade launchers with 200 rounds.

    U.S.: Raids have taken out 900 Taliban leaders 2011

  • Military and Homeland Security research directors on Wednesday said they envision wide applications for the genetically modified plants positioned in buildings, war zones and cities where terrorists could set up covert bombmaking factories.

    CSU Scientist Designing Terror-Fighting Plant The Denver Post 2011

  • The report also says Boko Haram members received combat and bombmaking training in Mauritania and in Algeria with members of al Qaeda's north Africa branch, known as al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM.

    Al Qaeda Ties Seen for Nigeria Group Will Connors 2011

  • Military and Homeland Security research directors on Wednesday said they envision wide applications for the genetically modified plants positioned in buildings, war zones and cities where terrorists could set up covert bombmaking factories.

    CSU Scientist Designing Terror-Fighting Plant The Denver Post 2011

  • Alleged terror training: Court documents say he acknowledged receiving bombmaking training for five months in Waziristan, Pakistan, a region where the Pakistani Taliban is influential.

    Dramatic airport arrest nets Times Square bomb suspect 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.