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Time bomb
noun
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Noun
- 1 A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.
"At 9.40 a.m. on Bank Holiday Monday, August 5, a ganger found what was thought to be a time bomb at a level crossing at Tempsford, near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, […] Inside one box was a brick; the other contained the works of an old alarm clock."
- 2 a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time wordnet
- 3 A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date or time.
"Donald Gene Burleson was prosecuted on felony charges for planting a time bomb that, shortly after he was fired, deleted more than 168,000 brokerage records of USPA & IRA in Fort Worth, Texas."
- 4 a problematic situation that will eventually become dangerous if not addressed wordnet
- 5 A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time. figuratively
"Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future."
Etymology
From time + bomb.
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