bomb
Meanings
noun
- An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
- The atomic bomb.
- Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
- A grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell.
- Ellipsis of bomb ship.
- Alternative form of boom (“barrier used to obstruct navigation for military or other purposes”)
- Any explosive charge.
- A bag or balloon containing a substance such as water, flour, or paint, designed to burst and splatter.
- Anything that is at risk of exploding (literally) or that has exploded.
- A fart.
- A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
- A car in poor condition.
verb
- To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
- To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
- To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
- To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
- To move at high speed.
- To make oneself drunk.
- To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
- To fail dismally.
- To crash.
- To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
- To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
- Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”).
adj
- Great, awesome.
noun
- The atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack.
phrase
- Initialism of bottom of the motherfucking barrel (indicating that something or someone is egregiously unfavorable).
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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.
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