toe-popper
n.— «Nearly a quarter-century of fighting has left Bagram littered with mines and unexploded ordnanc, from the tiny, flesh-shredding toe-popper land mines to rusting 500-pound Soviet bombs sticking out of the fields just beyond the runway.» —“Afghan air base heavily mined, hazardous” in Bagram, Afghanistan The Capital (Annapolis, Md.) Mar. 23, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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