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1. (n.) bomb
a case filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a detonating device or by impact, esp. one designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
2. bomb
any explosive device used as a weapon:
a time bomb; a smoke bomb; a car bomb.
3. bomb
a rough spherical or ellipsoidal mass of lava, ejected from a volcano and hardened while falling.
4. bomb
an aerosol can and its contents.
5. bomb
a long forward pass in football.
6. bomb
Slang.
7. bomb
an absolute failure.
8. bomb
Brit. a success; hit.
9. bomb
the bomb,
10. bomb
nuclear weapons collectively.
11. (v.t.) bomb
to hurl bombs at or drop bombs upon, as from an airplane; bombard.
12. (v.i.) bomb
to hurl or drop bombs.
13. bomb
Slang. to fail decisively; flop (sometimes fol. by out).
14. bomb
Informal. to move very quickly.
Etymology: (1580–90; earlier bom(b)e < Sp bomba (de fuego) ball (of fire))
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| Definition of 'Bomb' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) bomb
an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
2. (noun) bomb calorimeter, bomb
strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion
3. (verb) turkey, bomb, dud
an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
"the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
4. (verb) bombard, bomb
throw bombs at or attack with bombs
"The Americans bombed Dresden"
5. (verb) fail, flunk, bomb, flush it
fail to get a passing grade
"She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"
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1. (noun) bomb
an exploding weapon
to plant a bomb; A car bomb killed three civilians.
2. (verb) bomb
to attack with bombs
aircraft bombed the city
3. bomb
to do sth badly
I bombed that test.
4. bomb
to be unsuccessful
His first Broadway show bombed.
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| Definition of 'Bomb' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Bomb
a great noise; a hollow sound
2. (noun) Bomb
a shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell
3. (noun) Bomb
a bomb ketch
4. (verb) Bomb
to bombard
5. (verb) Bomb
to sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound
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| Definitions of 'Bomb' |
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. Bomb
1. v. General synonym for
crash (sense 1) except that it is not used as a
noun; esp. used of software or OS failures. “Don't run Empire with
less than 32K stack, it'll bomb.” 2. n.,v. Atari ST and Macintosh
equivalents of a Unix panic or Amiga
guru meditation, in which icons of little
black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the
system has died. On the Mac, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or
occasionally hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to the
Amiga guru meditation number.
MS-DOS machines tend to get
locked up in this situation.
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Sense: a hollow case containing explosives etc
The enemy dropped a bomb on the factory and blew it up.
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 Hindi: बम |
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 Thai: ลูกระเบิด |
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 Taiwanese: 炸彈 |
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 Urdu: بم |
 Vietnamese: quả bom |
 Chinese: 炸弹 |
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