Etymology

Mother of all Bombs

Today it means: A type of large-yield conventional bomb, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast. Full definition →

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The story

From a reinterpretation of the acronym MOAB (originally for "Massive Ordnance Air Blast"), using the mother of all construction.

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