VBIED
n.— «The soldiers call them VBIEDs, pronounced VeeBids, for vehicle borne improvised explosive device.» —“Preparing for moving day” by Joel P. Rawson in Samarra, Iraq Providence Journal (R.I.) May 18, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
When she was a child, Chris from Santa Rosa, California, misunderstood the definition of the word vehicle—with amusing results. This is part of a complete episode.
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