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axe bombing

Today it means: The act of tying down the trigger of a can of aerosol deodorant and throwing it into an enclosed space, as a prank. Full definition →

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From Axe (“a brand of aerosol deodorant”) + bombing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.