a robot bomb, esp. as used against England by Germany in WWII
buzz bomb in American English
noun
Military
a type of self-steering aerial bomb, launched from large land-based rocket platforms: used by the Germans in World War II, esp. over England
Word origin
[1940–45]This word is first recorded in the period 1940–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Rh factor, airlift, black box, redline, silkscreen