balloon bomb

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   a bomb carried by a balloon

   “In World War II the Japanese launched balloon bombs against North America”

   SynonymsFugo

   Broaderbomb

Questions about balloon bomb

What does balloon bomb mean?

balloon bomb means "a bomb carried by a balloon".

What is another word for balloon bomb?

Close synonyms include Fugo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is balloon bomb a common word?

balloon bomb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.