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

1 sense of dirty bomb

Sense 1
dirty bomb -- (an atom bomb that leaves considerable radioactive contamination)
       => atom bomb, atomic bomb, A-bomb, fission bomb, plutonium bomb -- (a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239))