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daisy cutter
noun- a 10,000 to 15,000 pound bomb used to clear jungle and create an instant landing zone in Vietnam US
- It can drop napalm (jellied gasoline), phosphorous bombs, 500-pound demolition and 260-pound fragmentation bombs, and a 500-pound Daisy Cutter with an attachment to detonate the bomb before it buries itself in the soft soil of the Delta. — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 30, 1967
- — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 133, 1990
- The bunker complex was not secured until the air force hit it with Daisy Cutters. — Keith Nolan, Ripcord, p. 89, 2000
- A “Daisy Cutter” is a huge bomb that can cause massive destruction [...] The type depicted in the leaflets, and also used in Afghanistan, is the BLU-82B Commando Vault or Big Blue 82, also known as the Daisy Cutter. — BBC News, 6 November 2001
- in cricket, a fast ball bowled conventionally or thrown underarm, that barely clears the surface of the pitch UK, 1863
- — Michael Rundell, The Dictionary of Cricket, p. 59, 1985
- — Keith Foley, A Dictionary of Cricketing Terminology, p. 95, 1998
- One delivery from Kirtley is an old-fashioned daisy cutter. — The Guardian, 15 August 2003
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