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名詞

bomb squad (plural bomb squads)

1. A division of a police force or the military responsible for safely defusing or detonating hazardous explosive devices.

   Synonyms: bomb disposal unit, EOD (explosive ordnance disposal)

   • 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:

     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.

参考

• bomb disposal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia