Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun big_blue

1 sense of big blue

Sense 1
Big Blue, BLU-82 -- (a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan)
       => fragmentation bomb, antipersonnel bomb, anti-personnel bomb, daisy cutter -- (a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles)