bomb
IPA: bˈɑm
noun
- An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
- (dated, often with the) The atomic bomb.
- (figurative) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
- (archaic) A mortar shell.
- (colloquial) Any explosive charge.
- (slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
- (US, Australia, informal) A car in poor condition.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A large amount of money.
- (social) Something highly effective or attractive.
- (chiefly Britain, slang) A success; the bomb.
- (chiefly Britain, India, slang) A very attractive woman.
- (often in combination) An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
- An obscene word identified by its first letter.
- (American football, slang) A long forward pass.
- (rugby, soccer, slang) A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
- (basketball, slang) A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
- A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
- (chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
- (obsolete) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
- (slang) A woman’s breast.
- (professional wrestling) A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
- (slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
- (colloquial) 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.
- (informal) The atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack.
- (historical, archaic) Ellipsis of bomb ship. [(military, nautical, historical) A ship armed with high-angle mortars firing explosive or carcass shells, and specialized for shore bombardment.]
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
- (transitive, figuratively, often with with) To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
- (informal)
- To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
- To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
- (especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed.
- (slang)
- (reflexive) To make oneself drunk.
- To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fail dismally.
- (intransitive, computing) To crash.
- (transitive, slang) To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
- (obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
- (slang) Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”)
adjective
- (slang) Great, awesome.
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Examples of "bomb" in Sentences
- He is willing to sell the bomb.
- Hikmet was uninjured by the bomb.
- The bomb was defused by the army.
- The village was razed due to nuclear bomb.
- You should detonate the bomb or disarm the bomb.
- Tempest is equivalent to the bombing of Hiroshima.
- The atomic bomb was not mentioned in the communique.
- It was the concept of strategic bombing that was the veneer.
- The nation with the nuclear bomb had the power to easily win the war.
- One of the bombs was successfully defused but the other bomb exploded.
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