suicide bomber

noun

plural suicide bombers

: a person who ends or plans to end their own life by exploding a bomb in order to kill other people

Examples of suicide bomber in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Days earlier, a suicide bomber struck a mosque inside a police compound in the nearby city of Kohat. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

The confrontation began Friday after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a mosque, and gunmen stormed the facility, killing 21 people and wounding 103 others. — Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026

In 2023, a suicide bomber killed 101 people in an attack inside a mosque in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. — Riaz Khan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

His role in those ISIS-K attacks, the Justice Department said, included providing surveillance, transporting suicide bombers or weapons and communicating with attackers. — CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for suicide bomber

• calmer
• embalmer