Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation explosively formed penetrator
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Examples
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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.
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TODD: Well, a Naval official told me today they found one so - called EFP, an expensively-formed penetrators bomb that can pierce American armor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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First episode: This two spies working for the EFP break into a secret base.
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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
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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
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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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