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n. 1 A male child, especially one younger than ten years of age. 2 (context NZ English) A small saveloy often consumed with tomato sauce at parties, also known as a cocktail sausage or a cheerio.
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"Little Boy" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., commander of the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare. The Hiroshima bombing was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity test, and the first uranium-based detonation. It exploded with an energy of approximately . The bomb caused significant destruction to the city of Hiroshima.
Little Boy was developed by Lieutenant Commander Francis Birch's group of Captain William S. Parsons's Ordnance (O) Division at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. Parsons flew on the Hiroshima mission as weaponeer. The Little Boy was a development of the unsuccessful Thin Man nuclear bomb. Like Thin Man, it was a gun-type fission weapon, but derived its explosive power from the nuclear fission of uranium-235. This was accomplished by shooting a hollow cylinder of enriched uranium (the "bullet") onto a solid cylinder of the same material (the "target") by means of a charge of nitrocellulose propellant powder. It contained of enriched uranium, of which less than a kilogram underwent nuclear fission. Its components were fabricated at three different plants so that no one would have a copy of the complete design.
After the war ended, it was not expected that the inefficient Little Boy design would ever again be required, and many plans and diagrams were destroyed, but by mid-1946 the Hanford Site reactors were suffering badly from the Wigner effect, so six Little Boy assemblies were produced at Sandia Base. The Navy Bureau of Ordnance built another 25 Little Boy assemblies in 1947 for use by the Lockheed P2V Neptune nuclear strike aircraft (which could be launched from but not land on the Midway-class aircraft carriers). All the Little Boy units were withdrawn from service by the end of January 1951.
Little boy or Little Boy may refer to:
- Little Boy, the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
- Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture, a 2005 book about Japanese postwar culture
- Little Boy (album), a 2007 album by Janno Gibbs
- "Little Boy" (song), a 1996 song by Captain Jack
- Little Boy (film), a 2015 American film
- Helen Littleboy, documentary director
- Little Boy, a character from the manga Spriggan
- "Little Boy" a 1964 single by The Crystals
- Boy, a young male human
"Little Boy" is a song recorded by the German eurodance group Captain Jack. It was released in September 1996 as the fourth and final single from their album, The Mission.
The song peaked at number 27 in Germany and reached number 8 in the Netherlands.
Little Boy is the eighth album of singer/actor/host Janno Gibbs. This 10-track album was produced and released by GMA Records in November, 2007.
In mid-2008, GMA Records released a special edition album of Little Boy which contain additional two tracks, Lupin the theme song of the action-adventure series of the same title, written by Janno Gibbs himself and featuring actress Ara Mina; and the revival Muli (Again), a Vehnee Saturno composition, which is also the theme song of an afternoon drama of the same title.
Little Boy is a 2015 World War II war fantasy- drama film produced by Eduardo Verástegui and Leo Severino, edited by Joan Sobel and Fernando Villena, directed by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde with music by Stephan Altman and Mark Foster and written by Monteverde and Pepe Portillo. The film stars Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Ben Chaplin, Eduardo Verástegui, Ted Levine, Abraham Benrubi, Tom Wilkinson. The title is a reference to Little Boy, the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima as well as a reference to Pepper, the main character's height. The film was co-produced by Metanoia Films and Santa Fé Films. The film was released on April 24, 2015, by Open Road Films and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 18, 2015 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The film received negative reviews from mainstream critics and it earned $17 million on a $20 million budget.
Usage examples of "little boy".
You had to look behind the superficial strangeness, and when you did you saw that he was really just a little boy.
A little boy, yes, an ugly little boy, a strange little boy, a human boy-a dirty little frightened child with bandy legs and a peculiarly shaped head and a miserable excuse for a chin and an infected cut on his thigh and a curious red birthmark on his cheek that looked like a jagged bolt of lightning-yes, yes, he wasn't at all like any child she had ever seen, but nevertheless she would try to think of him as a human being, this poor lost frightened child who had been snatched out of time.
I hardly think I want to go round asking some silly little boy if Captain Hardcastle is speaking the truth.
Even behind the face of the meanest man in the world is a scared little boy trying to wedge himself into a corner where he can’.
In another spot were a mother, a father, a grandmother, and a little boy about Nicky's age.
Stacey (who happens to be a little boy-crazy) was all set to launch into a long description of Travis's smile, when I cut her off.
Well, it would matter, of course it would matter, but at least it wouldn't leave somebody, him or his mum or Will or his little boy, completely on their own.
Philip scarcely made me feel much better, although then more than ever I saw him as the clueless little boy paralyzed by Pop’.
She was very sweet, indeed, and her little boy was like both her and his father.
You're an ugly little boy, you've got red ears, and your collar doesn't fit!