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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suicide bomber
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A woman Tiger suicide bomber then assassinated Gandhi.
▪ The bomb, it said, had been planted by a suicide bomber, named as Abu Yasser.
Wiktionary
suicide bomber

n. One who carries explosives on his or her body or in a vehicle and intends to detonate them to ensure maximum casualty of perceived enemies and inflict widespread damage. Usually the attacker is motivated by a political cause and is willing to die in the process.

WordNet
suicide bomber

n. a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people

Usage examples of "suicide bomber".

Tell them that 'he who lives by the suicide bomber dies by the suicide bomber'—.

Not all that long ago, Lewis had foiled an attempt to kill the King, by a Neuman suicide bomber.

The suicide bomber poked the top of his head above the couch's back.

He had only returned to Japan and presented himself to the draft board in his home prefecture after a suicide bomber in Malaysia had killed his father, a Sanyo executive.

But this situation has at least two kinks so far: This bomb wasn't against the usual symbolic targetan embassy, a government building, a military installation, a famous landmarkand it wasn't some lone suicide bomber taking out a crowded bus or busy nightclub.

He hadn't even been able to check the room for stragglers who might have survived the blast engineered by their suicide bomber, Saber Mohseni.

On March 27, a suicide bomber killed 29 and injured 140 at a Passover seder.

Okay, the not-dying part had been his idea - what he regarded as a sensible modification of the suicide bomber's traditional remit - but the attack itself was at someone else's instigation.

Loading a landspeeder full of Nergon 14 and having a suicide bomber run it into a generation station seemed the most expedient way of dealing with the shields.

She's crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease.

The fighters had obviously radioed ahead that a very strange aircraft, very possibly a Japanese suicide bomber, was on the way.