T-wall

T-wall
 n.β€” Β«I pass the ruins of police headquarters, blown up by an Al Qaeda in Iraq suicide truck bomber in May 2007, and enter a corridor lined by eight-foot-high slabs of concreteβ€””Texas barriers” or “T-walls,” in U.S. military parlance.Β» β€”β€œ Samarra Rises” by Joshua Hammer Smithsonian January, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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