Meaning of bomb | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
2. The atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack.
   informal
3. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. The atomic bomb
4. The atomic bomb
5. The atomic bomb.
   dated, often
6. Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect
7. Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
   figuratively
8. A grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell
9. A grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell.
   archaic, historical
10. Ellipsis of bomb ship
11. Ellipsis of bomb ship.
    abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, ellipsis, historical
12. Any explosive charge.
    colloquial
13. A bag or balloon containing a substance such as water, flour, or paint, designed to burst and splatter.
    in-compounds
14. Anything that is at risk of exploding (literally) or that has exploded.
    colloquial, figuratively
15. A fart.
    India, South, colloquial
16. A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
    slang
17. A car in poor condition.
    Australia, US, informal
18. A large amount of money.
    Australia, UK, slang
19. Something highly effective or attractive.
    British, slang
20. A success; the bomb.
    British, slang
21. A very attractive woman.
    British, India, slang
22. An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
    in-compounds, often
23. An obscene word identified by its first letter.
    in-compounds, often
24. A long forward pass.
    slang
25. A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
    slang
26. A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
    slang
27. A highly potent joint (cannabis cigarette).
    slang
28. A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
29. A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
30. A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
    obsolete
31. A woman’s breast.
    slang
32. A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
33. A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
    slang
34. 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.
    colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb.”

“During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.”

“If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.”

“"The hard Brexiteers have built a bomb under the UK automotive industry and the EU have lit it," they said.”

“Mr. Gaetz’s loyalty to Mr. Trump, and willingness to toss proverbial bombs in Washington’s corridors of power, has shown no bounds, at least in public.”

“And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air / Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there”

“The mineworkers are setting their bombs.”

“The children are playing with water bombs in the garden.”

“Activists threw paint bombs at the famous artwork.”

“That turkey fryer is a bomb waiting to go off.”

“The gas leak tragically turned the house into a bomb.”

“He just dropped a bomb.”

“box-office bomb”

“Projection problems plagued Countess’ London premiere on January 5, 1967, Jerry Epstein recalled, and it was perhaps an omen, for reaction by critics afterward was swift and immediate: The film was a bomb.”

“The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa, in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon.”

“The movie was a bomb, but it put the band before an even larger audience.”

“Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.”

“We′ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb.”

“After two weeks of driving it she knew the car was a bomb and she did not need anyone saying it to her. The only one allowed to pick on her car was her. Piece of crap car[…]”

“make a bomb”

“cost a bomb”

“When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must′ve cost a bomb.””

“'You′ve already spent a bomb!' 'Not on it, Sal — under it. Presents!' As we eventually staggered up to bed, Sally said to me, 'I hope to God he's not been spending a bomb on presents, too.[…]'”

“The kids cost a bomb to feed, they eat all the time.”

“2011, Bibe, A Victim, page 38, He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.”

“Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.”

“It was an ordinary speech, until the president dropped a bomb: he would be retiring for medical reasons.”

“Normally very controlled, he dropped the F-bomb and cursed the paparazzi.”

“With five seconds remaining, Smith received the inbounds pass and launched a bomb that dropped through the net to give his team an 80-79 victory.”

“Give me two bucks, you take a puff and pass my bomb back / Suck up that dank like a Slurpee, the serious / Bomb will make a niggy go delirious like Eddie Murphy”

“A bomb for this study is defined as one in which the deepening rate is the geostrophic equivalent of at least 12 mb in 12 h at 45ºN.”

“The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb.”

“a Pillar of Iron […] Which if you had ſtrucke […] it would make a great Bombe in the Chamber beneath.”

“In clear contravention of the International Code of Conduct for Swimming Baths, a teenager had entered the pool by performing a bomb.”

“Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.”

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