1
: a thickener consisting of a mixture of aluminum soaps used in jelling gasoline (as for incendiary bombs)
2
: fuel jelled with napalm
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Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
The Vietnam War was lost after squandering more than $1 trillion in current dollars, and suffering more than 55,000 American military deaths, millions of Vietnamese casualties, the My Lai massacre, napalm girl and countless other atrocities.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2025
Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2022
That bridge was napalmed with Antonio Brown’s gameday tweet on Robert Kraft.
—Albert Breer, SI.com, 3 Oct. 2019
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Noun
Thus my photo of the F-105 dropping napalm on a jungled hillside as far from my camera in 1970 as our condo near the Bell Museum on Larpenteur is from the deli at Como and Snelling.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
The Vietnam War was lost after squandering more than $1 trillion in current dollars, and suffering more than 55,000 American military deaths, millions of Vietnamese casualties, the My Lai massacre, napalm girl and countless other atrocities.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2025
Verb
In 1980, the United Nations banned the use of weapons like napalm against civilians, but these regulations don’t apply on the battlefield.
—Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2022
That bridge was napalmed with Antonio Brown’s gameday tweet on Robert Kraft.
—Albert Breer, SI.com, 3 Oct. 2019
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“Napalm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/napalm. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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