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n. (letter bomb English)
Usage examples of "letter bombs".
Kids shooting each other outside math class - letter bombs killing middle-aged professors - airliners full of French students blowing up in midair - these are the sort of moments that tell people life is insane, that their world is turning wrong.
They're terrorists - car bombs, letter bombs, they even poison water supplies.
Slightly depleted by a steady drain of fatal casualties experienced in live-ammunition training, they emerged after intensive indoctrination in guerrilla tactics and terrorist techniques, including refinements such as constructing car and letter bombs, concealing weapons and explosives aboard aircraft, getting the maximum media reaction from a terrorist incident, torture, and the handling and execution of hostages.
The slim little transmitter was powered by a Polaroid battery pack, just like the best letter bombs.
Albie Pearson would already have had his machines pre-process it, to weed out letter bombs and similar goodies.
You know, there's been a lot in the news lately because of all the people afraid of things like letter bombs.
I checked my answering machine (no messages) while he glanced at the mail from the day before (no letter bombs).