hand grenade

1. 1.

   a grenade designed to be thrown by hand

   Broadergrenade

Questions about hand grenade

What does hand grenade mean?

hand grenade means "a grenade designed to be thrown by hand".

Is hand grenade a common word?

hand grenade 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.