v-bidder
n.— «Rafael Epstein: “And it was, you say, a vehicle-born explosive device. Is that that someone tried to use a car bomb to attack a military convoy?” Philip Smith: “That’s what a lot of you all refer to it as. We call it a V-Bidder (phonetic) or Vehicle-born IED which is also often referred to as a car bomb, yes.”» —“Australian convoy hit by Baghdad bomb” by Philip Smith in Baghdad, Iraq ABC Radio (Australia) Oct. 25, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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