fallout shelter

fallout shelter
A thick-walled building, usually under the ground, built so that people can keep away from dust after a nuclear explosion.

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  • fallout shelter — fallout .shelter n a building under the ground in which people can shelter from a ↑nuclear attack …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • fallout shelter — fallout ,shelter noun count a building under the ground where people can go if there is a nuclear attack …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Fallout shelter — A sign pointing to an old fallout shelter in New York City. Nuclear weapons …   Wikipedia

  • fallout shelter — noun a shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb (Freq. 2) • Hypernyms: ↑shelter * * * fallout shelter UK US noun [countable] [singular fallout shelter plur …   Useful english dictionary

  • fallout shelter — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms fallout shelter : singular fallout shelter plural fallout shelters a building under the ground where people can go if there is a nuclear attack …   English dictionary

  • fallout shelter — Synonyms and related words: A blast, A bomb shelter, H blast, Mach front, abri, air raid shelter, airborne radioactivity, atom blast, blast wave, bomb shelter, bombproof, bunker, cave, concealment, cover, covert, coverture, cyclone cellar, dugout …   Moby Thesaurus

  • fallout shelter — noun (C) a building under the ground in which people can shelter from a nuclear (3) attack …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • fallout shelter — protective structure designed to shield against radioactive residue or particles resulting from an atomic explosion …   English contemporary dictionary

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  • Fallout Protection — Fallout Protection: What To Know And Do About Nuclear Attack , was an official United States federal government booklet released in December 1961 by the United States Department of Defense and The Office of Civil Defense.The first page of the… …   Wikipedia

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