• Hand-grenade

    Full definition of hand-grenade

    Noun

    1. Alternative form of en.
      • Riis Other Half|page=20|passage=The bullet-proof shutters, the stacks of hand-grenades, and the Gatling guns of the Sub-Treasury are tacit admissions of the fact and of the quality of the mercy expected.
      • Hemingway Farewell to Arms|page=131|passage=‘A hand-grenade. One of those potato-mashers. It just blew the whole side of my foot off.’
      • 29 January 2006, Bill Brownstein, Man loses detonator roulette, But what could Croatian chimney-sweeper Marko have been thinking by using a hand-grenade as a weight for his broom and then turning on his welding apparatus in the cleaning process?
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