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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb to send a letter-bomb to.

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Examples

  • This appears to be the case with a recent string of letter-bomb attacks on moderate Muslim leaders, as well as a suicide bombing at a mosque last month.

    Asia's Long War on Terror 2011

  • Another Italian anarchist group, the Italian Anarchist Federation, which happens to use the same acronym as the one behind the letter-bomb campaign, discounted the possibility of highly coordinated and organized anarchist offensives in the future.

    European anarchists grow more violent, coordinated 2010

  • Many agencies and recruitment agencies say that ‘people from other backgrounds are encouraged to apply’, but the truth is, they are as open to receiving those kind of people as you would be to receiving a letter-bomb in the post!!

    Lessons from Google « One Size Fits One 2008

  • Another Italian anarchist group, the Italian Anarchist Federation, which happens to use the same acronym as the one behind the letter-bomb campaign, discounted the possibility of highly coordinated and organized anarchist offensives in the future.

    European Anarchists Grow More Violent, Coordinated AP 2010

  • If he's found guilty of being the man who conducted a 17-year letter-bomb spree that left three dead and 23 injured, he could very well be sentenced to death -- and on the eve of his brother's trial, David is feeling bitter and betrayed by people he had come to trust.

    A Question Of Betrayal 2008

  • Babangida, who ruled Nigeria from 1985 to 1993, should be investigated along with two top security aides for the 1986 assassination by letter-bomb of Dele Giwa, editor of the magazine

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Pharmacists refusing to deliver something that they ought to deliver not a letter-bomb either, but a very expected and welcome letter.

    Two articles from Planned Parenthood 2005

  • First, who was killed in a letter-bomb explosion in Maputo, were guilty of murder, he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Lapsley lost both hands and an eye in a letter-bomb blast in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Another letter-bomb addressed to anti-apartheid activist Marius

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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