bomb squad

English

Etymology

From bomb +‎ squad.

Noun

bomb squad (plural bomb squads)

  1. A division of a police force or the military responsible for safely defusing or detonating hazardous explosive devices.
    • 1978, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, Tagging of Explosives: Hearings Before the Subcommittee..., page 181:
      They isolate; they evacuate the area; and they call the bomb squad. We then go in and do our examination.
    • 2015, Robert A Casper Sr., The FBI, a Vocation to Serve:
      Sam and the informant were quickly arrested, and the bomb squad defused the bombs.
  2. (soccer) A group of players who are deemed surplus to requirements by the club and are excluded from the first-team squad training.
    • 2016 October 26, Chris Flanagan, “Losing the dressing room: empty cliché or a real-life phenomenon?”, in FourFourTwo‎[1]:
      Discontent can brew among what is sometimes known within football as ‘the bomb squad’ – the cabal of players who have been ‘bombed out’ by the manager.

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