big blue

1. 1.

   a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan

   SynonymsBLU-82

   Broaderfragmentation bomb

Questions about big blue

What does big blue mean?

big blue means "a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan".

What is another word for big blue?

Close synonyms include BLU-82. 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 big blue a common word?

big blue is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.