What does hand-grenade mean?
Hand-grenade means Alternative form of hand grenade..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of hand grenade..
The bullet-proof shutters, the stacks of hand-grenades, and the Gatling guns of the Sub-Treasury are tacit admissions of the fact and of the quality of the mercy expected.
‘A hand-grenade. One of those potato-mashers. It just blew the whole side of my foot off.’
I went back in and threw a hand-grenade under the bed and then I brassed up the house. They were dead, of course.
But what could Croatian chimney-sweeper Marko have been thinking by using a hand-grenade as a weight for his broom and then turning on his welding apparatus in the cleaning process?
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Hand-grenade means Alternative form of hand grenade..
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The bullet-proof shutters, the stacks of hand-grenades, and the Gatling guns of the Sub-Treasury are tacit admissions of the fact and of the quality of the mercy expected.
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