Similar words: powder, powdered, gunpowder, face powder, powder room, chowder, clam chowder, crowded. Meaning: n. 1. a potentially explosive state 2. keg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powder.
1. We're sitting on a powder keg of racial tension in the city.
2. Since the riot, the city has been a powder keg waiting to explode.
3. The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence.
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4. The place was a powder keg.
5. This whole place is a powder keg!
6. This made the Middle East the powder keg.
7. Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
8. Global poverty a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
9. The build-up of forces in the region is creating a powder keg.
10. Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg.
11. Ireland - home, as Joseph called it - had been a powder keg since the Easter Rising three years ago.
12. Then all you need is a small sparking of the powder keg, and it's on.