Usually means: Powerful plastic explosive used globally.
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  1. semtex: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Semtex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Semtex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Semtex: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Semtex, semtex: Wordnik
  6. Semtex, semtex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Semtex: Dictionary.com
  8. Semtex (album), Semtex (disambiguation), Semtex (drink), Semtex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Semtex: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. semtex: Wiktionary

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  1. semtex: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Explosives (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  A highly malleable general-purpose plastic explosive.
▸ verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To use semtex to destroy (something).

Similar:
Torpex, Shimose powder, metepa, Shimose, mescalin, etem, methsuximide, pyrotol, metham sodium, nitrogelatin, more...

Opposite:
non-explosive, inert, harmless

Types:
plastique, C-4, more...

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Similar:
Torpex, Shimose powder, metepa, Shimose, mescalin, etem, methsuximide, pyrotol, metham sodium, nitrogelatin, more...

Opposite:
non-explosive, inert, harmless

Types:
plastique, C-4, more...



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