glide bomb

noun

A standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional bomb without such surfaces.

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Meanings

nounglide bomb (plural glide bombs)

plural glide bombs

  1. A standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional bomb without such surfaces.

    The destruction wrought by glide bombs is visible in towns and villages near the front line.

    2024 January 8, Carlotta Gall, Vladyslav Golovin, Mauricio Lima, “Exhausted, on the Defensive and at ‘Hell’s Gate’ in Ukraine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
verbglide bomb (third-person singular simple present glide bombs, present participle glide bombing, simple past and past participle glide bombed)

present singular third person glide bombs · participle present glide bombing · participle past glide bombed · past glide bombed · alternative glide-bomb

  1. To bomb using glide bombs
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APA

glide bomb. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glide%20bomb

MLA

“glide bomb.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glide%20bomb. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glide bomb,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glide%20bomb.

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