The Collaborative International Dictionary
letter-bomb
letter bomb \let"ter bomb`\, letter-bomb \let"ter-bomb`\n. A bomb disguised as a letter and sent through the mail, usually rigged to explode and kill or harm the recipient when opened.
letter-bomb
letter-bomb \letter-bomb\ v. t. to send a letter-bomb to.
Usage examples of "letter-bomb".
The mental pictures stayed with him for days - of fragmentation grenades hurled into the middle of a crowded church in Manila, of a bungled letter-bomb murder in Grozny that killed a one-month-old girl in her mother's arms.
The mental pictures stayed with him for days - of fragmentation grenades hurled into the middle of a crowded church in Manila, of a bungled letter-bomb murder in Grozny that killed a one- month-old girl in her mother's arms.