superweapon

English

Etymology

super- +‎ weapon

Noun

superweapon (plural superweapons)

  1. An extremely powerful weapon.
    • 1865, The Nation‎, J.H. Richards, page 150:
      It was after the publication of 1984 that Orwell became, as Isaac Deutscher put it, an ideological “superweapon of the cold war.”

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