TNT
noun
1.
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 sense is an initialism of Tagalog tago nang tago (literally “hide and hide”).
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