# bomber
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɒmə(ɹ)/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈbɑmɚ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒmə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From bomb +‎ -er.

#### Noun

bomber (plural bombers)
* (aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
* A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
** 2000 June 6, Nick Hopkins, “The bomber who tried to unleash a race war”, in The Guardian‎:The nail bomber who killed three people and injured dozens of others in a terrifying campaign last spring told police he was a homophobic Nazi, and that he hoped the explosions would "set fire to the country and stir up a racial war", the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
* (clothing) Ellipsis of bomber jacket.
** 1991 March 18, Jeff Black, “The Bomber Jacket Is Taking Lots of Flak”, in DNR, volume 21, number 53, →ISSN, page 13:A few years ago, the leather bomber was a gold mine for retailers and a gravy train for vendors. Consumers were crazy for them.
** 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Guardian‎:First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. […]
* (US, slang) A 22-ounce beer bottle.
* Short for graffiti bomber.
** 2002, Ivor Miller, Aerosol kingdom: subway painters of New York City, page 195:To bomb the system is to saturate MTA subway cars with one's signatures. ln the 1980s, certain writers were identified as bombers because they had mastered all disciplines of the form: insides, throw-ups, window-downs, top-to-bottoms, […]
* (slang) A large cannabis cigarette.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette
** 2011, Vera Rubin, Cannabis and Culture, page 510:In Canada, marihuana cigarettes rarely contain any tobacco, and may vary in size from a few hundred milligrams up to a several gram "bomber."
** 2017, Thomas Conrad, The Reunion:That night, I swallowed the last of my pain pills, smoked a bomber, and let the drugs carry me away.

##### Derived terms

* A-bomber
* ban-the-bomber
* biscuit bomber
* black bomber
* bomber gap
* bomber jacket
* bomber-jacketed
* bomber seat
* bomber's moon
* brown bomber
* dive bomber
* fighter bomber
* fighter-bomber
* heavy bomber
* light bomber
* medium bomber
* nail bomber
* Obomber
* shoe bomber
* shoeicide bomber
* skip bomber
* stealth bomber
* strategic bomber
* suicide bomber
* superbomber
* torpedo bomber
* water bomber
* yarn bomber
* Zoombomber

##### Related terms

* bombardier

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

A shortened form of bombproof.

#### Adjective

bomber (comparative more bomber, superlative most bomber)
* (climbing, slang) Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear.

##### Usage notes

The forms "more bomber" or "most bomber" are unusual.

### Further reading

* bomber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* mobber

## Aragonese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bomˈbe(ɾ)/
* Rhymes: -e(ɾ)
* Syllabification: bom‧ber

### Noun

bomber m (plural bombers)
* firefighter (person whose job is to put out fires)
** 2010, Academia de l’Aragonés, Propuesta ortografica de l’Academia de l’Aragonés, 2nd edition, Edacar, page 45:Corre! Grita a os bombers! Fe-lo ya!Run! Shout to the firefighters! Do it now!

## Catalan
### Etymology

From bomba +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [bumˈbe]
* IPA: (Balearic) [bomˈbe]
* IPA: (Valencia) [bomˈbeɾ]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bomber m (plural bombers, feminine bombera)
* firefighter

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bombər/, [ˈb̥ɔmb̥ɐ]
* Homophone: bumper

### Etymology 1

From bombe (“to bomb”) +‎ -er, a calque of English bomber.

#### Noun

bomber c (singular definite bomberen, plural indefinite bombere)
* (rare) bomber (military aircraft dropping bombs)
    Synonym: bombefly
* (rare) bomber (a pilot in a bomber)

##### Declension
#### References

* “bomber” in Den Danske Ordbog

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

bomber c
* indefinite plural of bombe

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

bomber
* present tense of bombe

## French
### Etymology 1

From bombe +‎ -er.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔ̃.be/

#### Verb

bomber
* (intransitive or reflexive) to bulge
* (figurative) to cower, to bend
* (colloquial) to move, walk quickly
* (colloquial) to spray paint (especially of taggers or graffiti artists)

##### Derived terms

* bomber le torse

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bomber (jacket).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔ̃.bœʁ/
* Homophone: bombeur

#### Noun

bomber m (plural bombers)
* bomber jacket

### Further reading

* “bomber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism. In the meaning "bomber jacket", a clipping of English bomber jacket. In the other meanings, transferred senses from the verb English bomb.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔm.ber/
* Rhymes: -ɔmber
* Hyphenation: bòm‧ber

### Noun

bomber m (invariable)
* graffiti artist
* goal scorer (football)
* bomber jacket

### References

* ↑ bomber in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* Brembo

## Norman
### Etymology

From English bomb + -er.

### Verb

bomber (gerund bombéthie)
* (Jersey) to bomb

#### Derived terms

* bombeux (“bomber”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

bomber m or f
* indefinite plural of bombe

### Verb

bomber
* present of bombe

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

bomber f
* indefinite plural of bombe

## Swedish
### Noun

bomber
* indefinite plural of bomb