daisy-cutter — ODE

daisy-cutter /ˈdeɪziˌkʌtə

▸ noun

1 British English informal (in sport) a ball hit or bowled so as to roll along the ground:

he delivered a left-foot daisy-cutter into the far bottom corner.

2 informal an immensely powerful aerial bomb that derives its destructive power from the mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder with air.

– ORIGIN late 18th century (in the sense ‘a horse that lifts its feet only slightly from the ground’); the bomb is so named because it explodes just above ground level.