26/11

proper noun

The 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. metonymicallyThe 2008 Mumbai attacks.

    [Title:] 26/11 Anniversary: U.S. Announces $5 Mn Bounty

    2018 December 7, “26/11 Anniversary: U.S. Announces $5 Mn Bounty”, in News India Times, volume 49, number 49, sourced from IANS, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 7
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    Just as 9/11 entered the dictionary of terror, so too will 26/11, the day which will go down as Mumbai's darkest hour, when terrorists laid siege to the city's roads, airports, railway station, hospitals and two of its best known luxury hotels, leaving a trail of death and destruction and taking hostages.

    [2008 December 8, Malini Bhupta, Aditi Pai, Saurabh Shukla, Bhavna Vij-Aurora, “New terror strategy”, in India Today, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 1

    The revelation about ISI’s role in 26/11 had not come from the interrogation of Pakistani-American LeT operative David Headley, but through India’s own investigation which had been shared with the U.S. officials.

    2010 August 6, Lalit K. Jha, “US Investigating Possible ISI Role in Mumbai Attack”, in India-West, volume 35, number 37, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page A14

    Ps talk to the family of 26/11 victims and ask them what does this current cricket series mean to them.

    2012 December 26, Shiva IYER <om.sriguru@gmail.com>, “Re: Paak terrorists kill our soldier while we are hosting their cricket team..”, in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2026

    Aashish Contractor, a doctor and a 26/11 survivor, counts himself lucky.

    2015 November 15, Amit Roy, Samyabrata Ray Goswami, “For Mumbai, same sounds and sights”, in The Telegraph (India), via EBSCOhost, →OCLC, page 4

    [D]espite recurring media representations of terrorist attacks like ‘26/11’ as self-evident events with supposedly predetermined consequences, there is a need to de-familiarize the policy ‘responses’ to them and thereby reclaim their political contingency.

    2016 August 29, Rhys Machold, “Learning from Israel? ‘26/11’ and the anti-politics of urban security governance”, in Security Dialogue, volume 47, number 4, Sage Publications, →DOI, →ISSN, page 277

Origin

From 26 November written in the dd/MM date format used in India.

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APA

26/11. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/26%2F11

MLA

“26/11.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/26%2F11. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “26/11,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/26%2F11.

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