Meaning of R-bomb | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of various shocking or offensive words starting with the letter R.

Examples

“The thirty minutes between her dropping the R-bomb [i.e., reproduction] and the bell for the end⟳ of the lesson dragged by with glacial slowness. She might as well not have⟳ been there, she felt, for all the attention that was paid.”

“When White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said a group of liberal activists were "fucking retarded," he was roundly condemned for dropping an R-bomb that way.”

“Cancer, John Mayer and "Please⟳ Don't Call⟳ Me Racist": Diffusing the R-Bomb”

“Of course, one is in a state of constant improvement. A state of Racist Rehab, if you will. When things get⟳ messy on Facebook, and a bunch of us racists start⟳ dropping R-bombs on each other, I like⟳ to take⟳ the moral high ground and say⟳, "I know⟳. I'm also a racist, but I'm in recovery." In fact, it's hard to be anything else, having been raised in a country where race⟳ is the currency of any kind of success, where the class oppression common worldwide is so closely grafted to skin colour.”

“Yep, just to reinforce the point⟳, she'd dropped the R-bomb. Anyone who was a child during the 1970s understands the knee-jerk horror created by the mere mention⟳ of rabies.”

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