Usually means: Radiological material dispersed by explosives.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word dirty bomb:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. dirty bomb: Merriam-Webster
  2. dirty bomb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dirty bomb: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dirty bomb: Vocabulary.com
  5. dirty-bomb: Wordnik
  6. dirty bomb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dirty bomb: Wiktionary
  8. dirty bomb: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. dirty bomb: Dictionary.com
  10. Dirty Bomb (album), Dirty Bomb (video game), Dirty Bomb, Dirty bomb (disambiguation), Dirty bomb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. dirty bomb: Rhymezone
  12. dirty bomb: FreeDictionary.org
  13. dirty bomb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. dirty bomb: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. dirty bomb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dirty bomb: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dirty bomb: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Army Technology Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Terrorism Terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dirty bomb)

▸ noun:  A device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material, designed to spread radiation over a wide area.
▸ noun:  A nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or by design.

Similar:
gamma bomb, cluster bomb, mother bomb, radiological weapon, smart bomb, clusterbomb, chemical bomb, car bomb, nuclear bomb, bomb, more...

Opposite:
clebomb, radiation-free bomb, non-nuclear bomb

Types:
radiological weapon, nuclear weapon, more...

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Similar:
gamma bomb, cluster bomb, mother bomb, radiological weapon, smart bomb, clusterbomb, chemical bomb, car bomb, nuclear bomb, bomb, more...

Opposite:
clebomb, radiation-free bomb, non-nuclear bomb

Types:
radiological weapon, nuclear weapon, more...



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