over-the-shoulder bombing

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   a special case of loft bombing in which the bomb is released past the vertical so it is tossed back to the target

   Broaderloft bombing

Questions about over-the-shoulder bombing

What does over-the-shoulder bombing mean?

over-the-shoulder bombing means "a special case of loft bombing in which the bomb is released past the vertical so it is tossed back to the target".

Is over-the-shoulder bombing a common word?

over-the-shoulder bombing 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.