daisy cutter

Questions about daisy cutter

What does daisy cutter mean?

daisy cutter means "a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for daisy cutter?

Close synonyms include fragmentation bomb, antipersonnel bomb, anti-personnel bomb. 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 daisy cutter a common word?

daisy cutter 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.