单词 | letter-bomb |
释义 | letter-bombv. transitive. To attack with a letter bomb (in either sense). Cf. mail bomb v. ΚΠ 1976 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 16 Sept. 87/7 Intelligence officers are being letter bombed. 1995 Denver Post 5 Mar. e4/1 And they letterbomb you. That means they send so much e-mail that your e-mail box fills up and overflows and starts devouring itself. 1999 A. Soueif Map of Love (2000) xxii. 357 Hate mail is a normal part of my brother's life and his house in New York has been letter-bombed twice. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Feb. (G2 section) 10 Exiled from South Africa, her London home letter-bombed by the South African secret police, she is now being celebrated. 2009 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 3 Sept. 3 A Facebook group..has even been created, asking members to please letter bomb a particular..staff member's email address. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1976 |
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