n. A person who deliberately kills himself or herself while detonating a bomb.
2001
In early August, 15 were killed when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive in a Jerusalem pizzeria. On June 1, 22 were killed, many young people, when another suicide bomber exploded a device outside a Tel Aviv disco.
1981 (earliest)
A thunderous explosion destroyed the five-story Iraqi Embassy today, and as many as 20 people were reported killed. … A Lebanese police spokesman first reported that a suicide bomber drove an explosives-filled car into the embassy compound past guards' machine-gun fire and detonated it near the building.
This phrase appeared on most of our language radars in 1983 after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden pickup truck into a building housing U.S. Marines at a Beirut, Lebanon airport. Interestingly, the earliest citation is from another Beirut-based explosion.