torpedo
n.— «Plastic bottles filled with urine are often called “torpedoes.”…”We hit them. They explode. The operator ends up wearing this stuff.”» —“Roadside Waste Measure Advances” by Lynn Bartels Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colo.) Jan. 19, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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