Usually means: Indiscriminate bombing over large area.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word carpet bomb:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. carpet-bomb, carpet bomb: Merriam-Webster
  2. carpet-bomb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carpet-bomb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carpet bomb: Vocabulary.com
  5. carpet-bomb: Wordnik
  6. carpet-bomb, carpet bomb: Wiktionary
  7. carpet-bomb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. carpet-bomb, carpet bomb: Dictionary.com
  9. Carpet bomb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. carpet bomb: Rhymezone
  11. carpet bomb: FreeDictionary.org
  12. carpet bomb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. carpet-bomb, carpet bomb: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. carpet bomb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. carpet bomb: Netlingo
  2. carpet-bomb: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carpet-bomb, carpet bomb: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See carpet_bombing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (carpet bomb)

verb:  To bomb an area in such a manner that the ordnance covers the entire area without gaps.
noun:  A bomb used in a carpet bombing.
noun:  A bombing of this kind.

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