hand grenade
noun/ˈhænd.ɡɹəˈneɪd/ · /ˈhænd.ɡɚˈneɪd/
1
Government, Military, Politics, War A small hand-held explosive device designed to be thrown at an enemy.
- It began with a verbal hand grenade lobbed by Mr. Trump Monday, decrying the staggered release of hostages under the painstakingly crafted Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement brokered by his own envoy along with Qatar, Egypt, and the outgoing Biden administration.2025 February 11, Taylor Luck, “Jordan in a bind: What to offer Trump instead of taking in Gaza refugees?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
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Archaic A fire grenade (kind of portable fire extinguisher).
- Derived terms
- almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades, holy hand grenade, hunky hand grenade
- Related terms
- grenade
- Hypernyms
- grenade
- Hyponyms
- grenado, holy hand grenade, Mills bomb, pineapple grenade, pineapple, potato-masher grenade, potato masher
- Coordinate terms
- rifle grenade, rocket-propelled grenade