bangalore torpedo

(n.) anti-trap device created by Captain McClintock of the British army while serving in India, 1912. The "Torpedo" was a number of ten steel tubes, about 13 pounds in weight each, that were flat-packed and assembled as needed. The front-most pole would have an explosive on the end which would detonate any mines in the area or clear barbed wire.

During the American Omaha beach landings on d-day, 1944, they troops cut throught the barbed wire with a bangalore torpedo.

by Kung-Fu Jesus May 6, 2004

bangalore torpedo

A variation on the space dock, with a toilet paper tube used to facilitate the fecal transfer.

Ian's stools were so loose that he had to pull a bangalore torpedo instead of the space dock.

by Jack Sparks February 18, 2007