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单词 letter-bomb
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letter-bombv.

Brit. /ˈlɛtəˌbɒm/, U.S. /ˈlɛdərˌbɑm/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: letter bomb n.
Etymology: < letter bomb n. Compare earlier letter bomber n.
transitive. To attack with a letter bomb (in either sense). Cf. mail bomb v.
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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).
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