Etymology

smart bomb

Today it means: A kind of guided missile. Full definition →

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From smart + bomb. Since the 1980s. Guided bombs are a hypernymous class that began earlier (with dumber types), but computerized precision-guided bombs called by the name smart bomb were newfangled novelties in the 1980s.

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