Crossword clues for grenade
grenade
- Hurled weapon
- Its business is booming
- Thrown weapon
- Small explosive
- Hand bomb
- Small missile
- Hurled explosive
- Hand ___
- Explosive pineapple
- Enraged (anag)
- Weapon with a pin
- Pineapple, e.g
- Pineapple for a G.I
- Pineapple of sorts
- Lobbed bomb
- It has a safety pin
- Hand-launched explosive
- GI's "pineapple"
- Field missile
- Explosive shell thrown by hand
- Dangerous thing to catch
- Bruno Mars song that reached #1 in 2011
- Bruno Mars "detonatable" song of 2010
- Angered (anag)
- 2011 #1 hit for Bruno Mars
- ___ launcher
- Pineapple and some bananas eaten (not “ate”) in class
- Pineapple, to a G.I.
- "Pineapple"
- Pineapple, e.g.
- It may contain tear gas
- Lobbed weapon
- A small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile
- Pin holder
- Small explosive shell
- Piece of weaponry
- Lobbed explosive
- Missile
- Pineapple, to a soldier
- Explosive missile
- Cook agreed to keep new pineapple
- Enraged drunk — one may explode
- Work unit, including a European, picked up item of ammunition
- Weapon launched, grandee distraught
- Something syrupy to drop in explosive device
- Small device to blow up raised part of sedan ergonomically
- Small bomb
- Fruit syrup … in goes pineapple, for example
- Fantastic range of French missile
- Pineapple cocktail mixer's not cool
- Hand-thrown bomb
- DANGER! Bouncing energy bomb
- Unexpected danger, eastern weapon
- Explosive device
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grenade \Gre*nade"\, n. [F. grenade a pomegranate, a grenade, or Sp. granada; orig., filled with seeds. So called from the resemblance of its shape to a pomegranate. See Carnet, Grain a kernel, and cf. Pomegranate.] (Min.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies. Hand grenade.
A small grenade of iron or glass, usually about two and a half inches in diameter, to be thrown from the hand into the head of a sap, trenches, covered way, or upon besiegers mounting a breach.
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A portable fire extinguisher consisting of a glass bottle containing water and gas. It is thrown into the flames. Called also fire grenade.
Rampart grenades, grenades of various sizes, which, when used, are rolled over the pararapet in a trough.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small explosive shell," 1590s, earlier "pomegranate" (1520s), from Middle French grenade "pomegranate" (16c.), earlier grenate (12c.), from Old French pomegrenate (influenced by Spanish granada); so called because the many-seeded fruit suggested the powder-filled, fragmenting bomb, or from similarities of shape. See pomegranate.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A pomegranate. 2 A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher. 3 (context heraldiccharge English) A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
WordNet
n. a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile
Wikipedia
A grenade is a small explosive device which is thrown at its target.
Grenade may also refer to:
Grenade insignia are symbols featured on the uniforms of numerous military units. The emblem represents a stylized old style of hand grenade, with a rising flame. The insignia is featured on the uniforms of such military units such as:
- the French Foreign Legion
- the French Gendarmerie
- Italian Carabinieri
- the Greek Army
- Dutch Koninklijke Marechaussee
- also used as a charge (heraldry)
- Finnish artillery
- British and Commonwealth Grenadier Guards Regiments
- the British Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
- Commissioned Officers of the British Royal Engineers
- Commissioned Officers of the British Honourable Artillery Company
- Romanian infantry troops
- Norwegian artillery troops
- Portuguese artillery troops
- the officers of the Hellenic Army
- Commissioned Officers of the Armed Forces of Malta
- Royal Life Guards (Denmark)
"Grenade" is a song by American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars from his debut studio album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010). A pop and R&B ballad, "Grenade" was written and produced by The Smeezingtons (Mars, Phillip Lawrence, Ari Levine) with additional songwriting by Brody Brown, Claude Kelly, and Andrew Wyatt. The song was developed from an unreleased track with similar lyrical themes played by record producer Benny Blanco to Mars. "Grenade" was completely rearranged and re‑recorded two days before the album's release. The song's lyrics carry a message of unrequited love and how Mars' heart was broken, despite his best efforts to show her his love. Initially released as a promotional single on September 28, 2010, it was later announced as the album's second single, released by Atlantic and Elektra Records.
"Grenade" was well received by critics, praising the vocals and emotional lyrics of the song and also considered it as one of the stand-out tracks on Doo-Wops & Hooligans. The single reached number one in fifteen different countries, giving Mars his third number one single on the Billboard Hot 100, and topping the Canadian Hot 100 for three non-consecutive weeks. "Grenade" was certified seven times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and six times by Music Canada (MC). Worldwide, it was the second best selling digital single of 2011 with sales of 10.2 million copies.
A music video for the single, directed by Nabil Elderkin, was released on November 19, 2010. In the video, Mars is seen dragging an upright piano through Los Angeles, by the time he arrives at the home of his beloved, he discovers she is with another man, so he decides to leave and ends up by killing himself. Mars performed "Grenade" on The Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour (2010–12) and The Moonshine Jungle Tour (2013–14). The song has been covered by a variety of performers. It was nominated for both Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.
Usage examples of "grenade".
She set her grenades for minimum range, airburst, and fired three down the center.
One of the two troopers escorting them whirled with the preternatural speed of jumped-up cyborg reflexes, and cranked off a couple of antipersonnel grenades from the launcher built into his left elbow.
The huge projectiles were high explosives, some antipersonnel warheads carrying up to one hundred and ninety-five grenades.
When the door sagged, Jersey tossed the antipersonnel grenade into the stinking darkness and the team members flattened against a wall or hit the littered floor.
A half a dozen antipersonnel grenades sailed through the hole in the bricks and blew dust and debris and various body parts all over the place.
We need a small number, three or four at most, antipersonnel grenades with hand launchers.
Another stun grenade banged, and some slag in a uniform staggered back through the doorway by the stairs.
The fallen officers blocked the door from closing, and as Bengazi reached the last step, he rolled a smoke grenade and then a fragmentation grenade into the hallway.
Arnie himself had shot three, four of the Sons with deer slugs on the Night, and each one of them had gotten up, one of them finally mauling Arnie in a way that gave him a whole new set of scars to go with the three puckered ones that had gotten him his Purple Heart in a little unnamed village in Uijongbu and the one zipperlike one he had gotten from a grenade during the bugout from Taejon.
As they tossed grenades into the windows, Cota and another man kicked in the front door, tossed a couple of grenades inside, waited for the explosions, then dashed into the house.
The cartridge box, which hung beneath the bayonet at the end of the crossbelt, had a brass badge of a grenade mounted on its lid.
They were greeted by Desis One and Two, who flanked a long coffee table on which there were four MAC-10 machine pistols, twenty magazine clips, sixteen grenades, four miniaturized radios, two flamethrowers, four infrared binoculars, and a dismantled egg-shaped bomb that could blow up at least a quarter of the state of New Hampshire - the lesser southeastern part.
CD quarantine, so all the Dons and the Republicans can do is kill each other with rifles and knives and grenades.
On the right the other grenade burst in brief thunder, and Craig heard the taut, drumlike sound of shrapnel slapping into flesh.
He tossed in a fragger grenade, and when it went off, he was up and charged inside.