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bangalore torpedo

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Bangalore torpedo

–noun
a metal tube filled with explosives and equipped with a firing mechanism, esp. for destroying barbed-wire entanglements, mine fields, etc.

Origin:
1910–15
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ban·ga·lore torpedo   (bāng'gə-lôr', -lōr')   
n.  A piece of metal pipe filled with an explosive, used primarily to clear a path through barbed wire or to detonate land mines.

[After Bangalore.]
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