Word: bomb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom. Pronunciation: /bɒm/, /bɑm/, /bʌm/, /bɔm/ 1. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. Example: The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb. 2. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. Labels: dated, often Example: During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes. 3. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. Labels: figuratively Example: 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. Example: "The hard Brexiteers have built a bomb under the UK automotive industry and the EU have lit it," they said. 4. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. Labels: archaic, historical Example: And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air / Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there 5. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, ellipsis, historical 6. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic, uncommon Example: Juſt by the Black Sea are two Caſtles, one in Europe and the other in Aſia […] Anciently a Chain or Bomb lay acroſs from Caſtle to Caſtle, to prevent the paſſing of Ships in troublesome times. Example: they make no doubt of being Maſters of the Iſland, but the Entrance to the Place intended to be next attack’d, being ſecur’d by a Chain or Bomb the breaking of which might greatly damage their Shipping, they deferr’d attempting it before more arriv’d 7. Any explosive charge. Labels: colloquial Example: The mineworkers are setting their bombs. 8. A bag or balloon containing a substance such as water, flour, or paint, designed to burst and splatter. Labels: in-compounds Example: The children are playing with water bombs in the garden. Example: Activists threw paint bombs at the famous artwork. 9. Anything that is at risk of exploding (literally) or that has exploded. Labels: colloquial, figuratively Example: That turkey fryer is a bomb waiting to go off. Example: The gas leak tragically turned the house into a bomb. 10. A fart. Labels: India, South, colloquial Example: He just dropped a bomb. 11. A failure; an unpopular commercial product. Labels: slang Example: box-office bomb Example: 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. 12. A car in poor condition. Labels: Australia, US, informal Example: Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection. Example: We′ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb. 13. A large amount of money. Labels: Australia, UK, slang Example: make a bomb Example: cost a bomb 14. Something highly effective or attractive. Labels: UK, slang Example: Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb. 15. Something highly effective or attractive. Labels: India, UK, slang 16. Something highly effective or attractive. Labels: in-compounds, often Example: It was an ordinary speech, until the president dropped a bomb: he would be retiring for medical reasons. 17. Something highly effective or attractive. Labels: in-compounds, often Example: Normally very controlled, he dropped the F-bomb and cursed the paparazzi. 18. Something highly effective or attractive. Labels: slang 19. Something highly effective or attractive. Labels: slang 20. Something highly effective or attractive. Labels: slang Example: 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. 21. Something highly effective or attractive. Labels: slang Example: 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 22. Something highly effective or attractive. Labels: in-compounds, informal Example: Bacon-wrapped sausage stuffed with cheese, onions, jalapenos, and more bacon is as artery-clogging as it is delicious! […] Remove bacon bomb from the smoker; let rest for 30 minutes before slicing. Example: Amazing Pepperoni Pizza Bombs explode with flavor with every bite! They are loaded with pepperoni, cheese, and sauce to create a delicious POP of flavor in your mouth – hence the name! 23. A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours. Example: 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. 24. A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure. Example: The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb. 25. A great booming noise; a hollow sound. Labels: obsolete Example: a Pillar of Iron […] Which if you had ſtrucke […] it would make a great Bombe in the Chamber beneath. 26. A woman’s breast. Labels: plural, slang, usually Example: Birdie was okay, and occasionally in passing Mort would give her a slap on the behind, or cop of feel of those bombs of hers. Example: voices from the crowd: Hit her below the belt. (Laughter) voices:Her bombs might explode! 27. A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat. 28. A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed. Labels: slang 29. 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. Labels: colloquial Example: In clear contravention of the International Code of Conduct for Swimming Baths, a teenager had entered the pool by performing a bomb.