C-bomb

noun
/ˈsiːbɒm/UK

Etymology

Abbreviation + bomb. In second sense, after F-bomb etc.

Definitions

  1. Abbreviation of cobalt bomb

    Abbreviation of cobalt bomb: A type of nuclear bomb encased in cobalt.

    • Unlike steel, cobalt absorbs radioactivity, and in the explosion of a C-bomb, the thick shell of cobalt metal would be blasted apart with such force that the cobalt would be pulverized into very fine dust.
    • But we tend to forget the C-bomb, a hydrogen bomb that could 'transmute' an element such as cobalt into a radioactive element about 320 times as powerful as radium.
  2. The word "cunt".

  3. Alternative letter-case form of C-bomb.

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