bomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbɑmɚ/
rhymes: -ɒmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bombers
Etymology: From bomb + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.
ref: 2020 March 7, Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, “History’s deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II and you’ve probably never heard of it”, in CNN:
text: B-2 bombers are the only plane capable of carrying the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which experts have highlighted as the only type of bomb potentially capable of destroying Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility. Each B-2 bomber is able to carry two of these “bunker buster” bombs, which weigh an impressive 30,000 pounds each.
ref: 2025 June 21, Thomas Bordeaux, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, “US moves B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran options”, in CNN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2000 June 6, Nick Hopkins, “The bomber who tried to unleash a race war”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
examples: text: A few years ago, the leather bomber was a gold mine for retailers and a gravy train for vendors. Consumers were crazy for them.
ref: 1991 March 18, Jeff Black, “The Bomber Jacket Is Taking Lots of Flak”, in DNR, volume 21, number 53, →ISSN, page 13:
text: First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt.[…]
ref: 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Guardian:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Ellipsis of bomber jacket.
glosses: A 22-ounce beer bottle.
examples: text: 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, […]
ref: 2002, Ivor Miller, Aerosol kingdom: subway painters of New York City, page 195:
glosses: Ellipsis of graffiti bomber.
examples: text: In Canada, marihuana cigarettes rarely contain any tobacco, and may vary in size from a few hundred milligrams up to a several gram "bomber."
ref: 2011, Vera Rubin, Cannabis and Culture, page 510:
text: That night, I swallowed the last of my pain pills, smoked a bomber, and let the drugs carry me away.
ref: 2017, Thomas Conrad, The Reunion:
synonyms: word: bifta
word: bifter
word: blunt
word: bogie
word: bomber
word: bone
word: bun
word: Camberwell carrot
word: doink
word: doinker
word: doob
word: doober
word: doobie
word: exotic cheroot
word: fatty
word: giggle stick
word: hogger
word: hooter
word: J
word: jazz cigarette
word: jay
word: jimmy
word: joint
word: juju
word: left-handed cigarette
word: muggle
word: number
word: phattie
word: reefer
word: roach
word: spiff
word: spliff
word: toke tube
word: torpedo
word: zol
word: zoot
glosses: A large cannabis cigarette.
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
patrol bomber
shoe bomber
shoeicide bomber
skip bomber
stealth bomber
strategic bomber
suicide bomber
superbomber
torpedo bomber
water bomber
yarn bomber
Zoombomber
Related terms: bombardier