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NAPALM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does napalm mean?
• NAPALM (noun)
The noun NAPALM has 1 sense:
1. gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowers
Familiarity information: NAPALM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("napalm" is a kind of...):
gas; gasolene; gasoline; petrol (a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines)
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