SVBIED
n.— «When you see what we call an SVBIED, a suicide vehicle born improvised explosive device, also known as a car bomb,…then you start thinking al-Qaeda in Iraq.» —“Flagging morale among coalition forces as Iraq war drags on” by Hamish Fitzsimmons ABC: PM (Australia) Feb. 9, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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