Meanings
plural explosive belts
- A belt packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by a suicide bomber.
1 more example
The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.
2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The GuardianSynonyms: suicide belt
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA belt packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by a suicide bomber.
Translations
Arabic حِزَام نَاسِف
- حِزَام نَاسِف (ḥizām nāsif)belt with explosives, worn by suicide bombers
French ceinture explosive
- ceinture explosivebelt with explosives, worn by suicide bombers
German Sprengstoffgürtel
- Sprengstoffgürtelbelt with explosives, worn by suicide bombers
Polish pas szahida
- pas szahidabelt with explosives, worn by suicide bombers
Swedish bombbälte
- bombbältebelt with explosives, worn by suicide bombers
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explosive belt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/explosive%20belt
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