bomb.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
Meaning & usage
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. The atomic bomb.
During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. A grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. Ellipsis of bomb ship.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. Alternative form of boom (“barrier used to obstruct navigation for military or other purposes”)
Any explosive charge.
The mineworkers are setting their bombs.
A bag or balloon containing a substance such as water, flour, or paint, designed to burst and splatter.
The children are playing with water bombs in the garden.
Activists threw paint bombs at the famous artwork.
Anything that is at risk of exploding (literally) or that has exploded.
That turkey fryer is a bomb waiting to go off.
The gas leak tragically turned the house into a bomb.
A fart.
He just dropped a bomb.
A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
box-office bomb
A car in poor condition.
A large amount of money.
make a bomb
cost a bomb
Something highly effective or attractive. A success; the bomb.
Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.
Something highly effective or attractive. A very attractive woman.
Something highly effective or attractive. An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
It was an ordinary speech, until the president dropped a bomb: he would be retiring for medical reasons.
Something highly effective or attractive. An action or statement that causes a strong reaction. An obscene word identified by its first letter.
Normally very controlled, he dropped the F-bomb and cursed the paparazzi.
Something highly effective or attractive. A long forward pass.
Something highly effective or attractive. A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
Something highly effective or attractive. A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
Something highly effective or attractive. A highly potent joint (cannabis cigarette).
Something highly effective or attractive. A piece of food, often small, usually intensely flavored.
A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
A woman’s breast.
A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor. Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos)bor. Latin bombusder. Italian bombabor. French bombebor. English bomb From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.
To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard. To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
To move at high speed.
I was bombing down the road on my motorbike.
To make oneself drunk.
To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
To fail dismally.
I totally bombed that exam.
To crash.
To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor. Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos)bor. Latin bombusder. Italian bombabor. French bombebor. English bomb From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.
Great, awesome.
Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor. Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos)bor. Latin bombusder. Italian bombabor. French bombebor. English bomb From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.
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