hyperbomb

An exceedingly powerful, destructive bomb; superbomb.

Noun

  1. An exceedingly powerful, destructive bomb; superbomb.
    • The hyperbomb of that day will have lost meaning as a weapon and gained meaning as a complex substitute for Francoise Sagan's "sports" car, as this death device is so playfully called. - 1957, Clifton Fadiman, Any...
    • "He went back inside," Igor grunted. "After examining the artefacts we'd packed for dispatch. Probably wants to make sure the computer records don't describe them as ultra-guns or hyperbombs or whatever the hell." -...
    • We entered an area where a hyperbomb had been detonated during the war. - 2014, J. Michael Reeves, Terry Austin, Byron Preiss, I—Alien, J. Boylston, →ISBN:

Origin

From hyper- + bomb.

Forms

hyperbombs

Related

doomsday bomb weapon of mass destruction