cruise missile

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   an unmanned aircraft that is a self-contained bomb

   Broaderaircraftbomb

Questions about cruise missile

What does cruise missile mean?

cruise missile means "an unmanned aircraft that is a self-contained bomb".

Is cruise missile a common word?

cruise missile 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.