smart bomb

noun

A kind of guided missile.

Opposite
iron bombdumb bomb
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Meanings

nounsmart bomb (plural smart bombs)

plural smart bombs

  1. A kind of guided missile.
  2. aeronauticsA guided air-dropped bomb.
  3. video gamesA weapon that damages or kills all enemies within a large area.

    On your side, you've got three lives, with each life having three smart bombs. These wipe out all the enemy on the screen when used, as smart bombs should.

    1988, Flying Shark (game review) in Your Sinclair issue 27, page 67

Synonyms & antonyms

antonym(s) of “guided air-dropped bomb”

Opposite
iron bomb
Opposite
dumb bomb

nouna bomb that can be guided (by a laser beam or radio) to its target

Opposite
dumb bomb
Broader
bomb

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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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Chicago

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