carpet-bomb

See also: carpet bomb

English

Verb

carpet-bomb (third-person singular simple present carpet-bombs, present participle carpet-bombing, simple past and past participle carpet-bombed)

  1. Alternative spelling of carpet bomb
    • 1946, The Seventh United States Army in France and Germany, 1944-1945, United States Army, page 700:
      The 42nd Bombardment Wing would carpet-bomb defenses facing Seventh Army. XII Tactical Air Command, of which Brigadier General Glenn O. Barcus had recently become chief.
    • 2011, Wolfgang Schneider, Tigers in Normandy‎, page 167:
      Heavy bombers of the British Bomber Command carpet-bombed the positions of the 276. Infanterie-Division four times.
    • 2012, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Legend of Pradeep Mathew: A Novel‎:
      To win wars you need to carpet-bomb civilians. And to get away with carpet-bombing civilians.
    • 2012, Gavin McInnes, How to Piss in Public: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, page 77:
      There was nothing to do but fuck lazy sluts so I carpet-bombed the city with my dick.
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