Meaning

2 senses

  1. (informal)Dynamite or any weak explosive.

  2. (Philippines, informal)An illegal immigrant.

More definitions
  • explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene

Origin

All senses by acronymy or initialism formation or by metonymic relation thereto. The third

All senses by acronymy or initialism formation or by metonymic relation thereto. The third sense is an initialism of Tagalog tago nang tago (literally “hide and hide”).

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Forms

plural: TNTs
SingularTNT
PluralTNTs

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene:trinitrotoluene

See also

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