ICBM

English

Noun

ICBM (plural ICBMs)

  1. (weaponry) Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile.
    • 1959, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”, in Tom Lehrer (music), An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer:
      Just sing out a Te Deum / When you see that ICBM / And the party will be come-as-you-are
    • 2002, Alexander T. Lennon, Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Missile Defense, Arms Control, and Arms Races in the Twenty-first Century, MIT Press, →ISBN:
      Iraq could test a North Korean-type ICBM that could deliver a several-hundred-kilogram payload to the United States in the last half of the next decade [the decade beginning with calendar year 2000] depending on the level of foreign assistance.

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Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English ICBM.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) アイシービーエ​ム [àíshííbííéꜜmù] (Nakadaka – [7])
  • IPA(key): [a̠iɕiːbʲiːe̞mɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

ICBM(アイシービーエム) • (aishībīemu) 

  1. (weaponry) an ICBM

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