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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation explosively formed penetrator

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Examples

  • Thursday's bomb, which was detonated near a checkpoint outside Victory Base Camp, was a powerful armor-piercing explosive known as an EFP, according to two military officials with knowledge of the attack.

    Baghdad roadside bomb kills 2 U.S. soldiers 2011

  • TODD: Well, a Naval official told me today they found one so - called EFP, an expensively-formed penetrators bomb that can pierce American armor.

    CNN Transcript May 30, 2007 2007

  • ROBERTS: The troops that I was riding with were worried about these bombs but the ones they really fear is called EFP, explosive form projectiles or penetrators, shaped chargers is what they call it.

    CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2007 2007

  • Now, those operations are part of a broad program and include the use of deadly roadside bombs known as the EFP, or explosively formed projected that punches through American battle tanks with ease.

    CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2007 2007

  • ROBERTS: The troops that I was riding with were worried about these bombs but the ones they really fear is called EFP, explosive form projectiles or penetrators, shaped chargers is what they call it.

    CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2007 2007

  • Tom French from the project will be at the event to talk about school food policy, and EFP chef Andrew Radziolowski will be cooking with Hebb in the kitchen.

    Words, wine, American Buffalo & Nina Planck 2009

  • First episode: This two spies working for the EFP break into a secret base.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Some advice for authors interested in writing screenplays and/or video games 2010

  • Kevin with EFP Rotenberg, LLP dropped a card in the bucket at the BDO Seidman Conference in Las Vegas last week and low and behold he has a new toy.

    Blog | Xcentric 2010

  • Unlike typical roadside bombs, made of an artillery shell buried beneath a road or concealed in some trash, an EFP was what some militaries called an "off-route mine," because it was placed beside a road.

    David Isenberg: Armed Humanitarians: Part 1 David Isenberg 2010

  • Insurgents were designing increasingly lethal roadside bombs, and the contractors were particularly worried about a new threat, the "explosively formed projectile" or EFP.

    David Isenberg: Armed Humanitarians: Part 1 David Isenberg 2010

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