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Minesweeper

//ˈmaɪnˌswipɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines wordnet
  3. 3
    A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints. uncountable

Etymology

From mine + sweeper.

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