letter bomb

See also: letterbomb

English

Noun

letter bomb (plural letter bombs)

1. An explosive device sent through the post, triggered to explode when the letter or packet is opened.
2. (computing) A virus contained within an email or similar file.

Verb

letter bomb (third-person singular simple present letter bombs, present participle letter bombing, simple past and past participle letter bombed)

1. (transitive) To send a letter bomb (of either sense).

Synonyms

• mail bomb

Translations

explosive device

• Danish: brevbombe
• Finnish: kirjepommi (fi)
• French: lettre piégée f
• German: Briefbombe (de) f
• Hungarian: levélbomba (hu)
• Spanish: carta bomba f
• Swedish: brevbomb (sv) c
• Turkish: bombalı mektup

Further reading

• letter bomb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia