v. To answer a question using an enormous amount of barely related answers in the hope of somehow saying
something that is close to correct.
named after the warfare technique where hundreds of thousands of pounds of
high-explosives are dropped in the hope of killing a
small, mobile group of enemies.
Tim- What's the capital of Kansas?
Bob- Ummm... Birmingham...Detroit...Vermont, New Port, Chicago, Pierre, Saskatchewan, Iowa, Phoenix, Malibu,
Chad, Nepal, Chengdu, Dzerzhinsk, Holland, Denver, Fork Lift, Squirrel, Pikachu, Topeka...
Tim- There! That one! Way to carpet-bomb the
hell outta that.