fallout shelter

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   a shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb

   Broadershelter

Questions about fallout shelter

What does fallout shelter mean?

fallout shelter means "a shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb".

Is fallout shelter a common word?

fallout shelter 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.