plastic explosive

1. 1.

   an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy

   Synonymsplastique

   Broaderexplosive compound

Questions about plastic explosive

What does plastic explosive mean?

plastic explosive means "an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy".

What is another word for plastic explosive?

Close synonyms include plastique. 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 plastic explosive a common word?

plastic explosive 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.