suicide bomber

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   a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people

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Questions about suicide bomber

What does suicide bomber mean?

suicide bomber means "a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people".

Is suicide bomber a common word?

suicide bomber 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.