bomb

noun30

1. •
   a weapon that blows up and destroys things around it, often dropped from a plane

   • The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb. — 2008
2. •
   The atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack.

   • Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.
3. •
   The atomic bomb.

   • During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.
4. •
   (figurative) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.

   • "The hard Brexiteers have built a bomb under the UK automotive industry and the EU have lit it," they said. — 2018
5. •
   (informal) Any explosive charge.

   • The mineworkers are setting their bombs.
6. •
   (informal, figurative) Anything that is at risk of exploding (literally) or that has exploded.

   • That turkey fryer is a bomb waiting to go off.
   • The gas leak tragically turned the house into a bomb.
7. •
   (slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.

   • The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa, in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon. — 2010
8. •
   [in compounds] An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.

   • It was an ordinary speech, until the president dropped a bomb: he would be retiring for medical reasons.
9. •
   [in compounds] (informal) An obscene word identified by its first letter.

   • Normally very controlled, he dropped the F-bomb and cursed the paparazzi.
10. •
    (UK, slang) A large amount of money.

    • When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must′ve cost a bomb.” — 2009
11. •
    [in compounds] A bag or balloon containing a substance such as water, flour, or paint, designed to burst and splatter.

    • The children are playing with water bombs in the garden.
    • Activists threw paint bombs at the famous artwork.
12. •
    Something highly effective or attractive.
13. •
    (UK, slang) A success; the bomb.

    • Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.
14. •
    (UK, slang) A very attractive woman.
15. •
    (slang) A long forward pass.
16. •
    (slang) A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.

    • 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. — 2013
17. •
    (US, informal) A car in poor condition.

    • Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection. — 2005
18. •
    (informal) 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.

    • In clear contravention of the International Code of Conduct for Swimming Baths, a teenager had entered the pool by performing a bomb. — 2016
19. •
    A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.

    • 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. — 1980
20. •
    A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.

    • The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb. — 2008
21. •
    (slang) A highly potent joint (cannabis cigarette).

    • 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 — 1995
22. •
    [in compounds] (informal) A piece of food, often small, usually intensely flavored.

    • 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. — 2018
23. •
    A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
24. •
    (slang) A woman’s breast.

    • 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. — 1970
25. •
    (India, informal) A fart.

    • He just dropped a bomb.
26. •
    (slang) A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
27. •
    (slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
28. •
    (no longer used, historical) A grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell.

    • And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air / Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there — 1814
29. •
    (no longer used, historical) Ellipsis of bomb ship.
30. •
    (no longer used) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.

    • a Pillar of Iron […] Which if you had strucke […] it would make a great Bombe in the Chamber beneath. — 1627

verb12

1. •
   To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.

   • 15 May: US jets bombed air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally bombing civilian targets. (AP) — 2000
2. •
   (figurative) To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
3. •
   (slang) To fail dismally.

   • I totally bombed that exam.
4. •
   (informal) To move at high speed.

   • I was bombing down the road on my motorbike.
5. •
   (slang) To crash.

   • When things weren't going Alison's way at work — some editor wanted something changed or her computer bombed again — she'd cuss and yell at whoever happened to be in the way. — 2001
6. •
   (slang) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.

   • It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing. — 2009
7. •
   (informal) To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
8. •
   [with oneself] (slang) To make oneself drunk.

   • The calendar was selling Moctezuma beer, so I had one of them in her honor while Murray bombed himself with the mezcal. — 1985
9. •
   (slang) To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
10. •
    (informal) To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
11. •
    (slang) Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”).
12. •
    (no longer used) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

    • What over-charged piece of melancholie / Is this, breakes in betweene my wishes thus, / With bombing sighs? — 1625

adjective1

1. •
   (slang) Great, awesome.

   • Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!

phrase1

1. •
   (vulgar, offensive) Initialism of bottom of the motherfucking barrel (indicating that something or someone is egregiously unfavorable).