Meaning

27 senses
  1. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.

    an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions

  2. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.

    (dated, often)The atomic bomb.

    During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.

  3. (figuratively)Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.

  4. (colloquial)Any explosive charge.

    The mineworkers are setting their bombs.

  5. (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.

  6. (colloquial, figuratively)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. (India, South, colloquial)A fart.

    He just dropped a bomb.

  8. (slang)A failure; an unpopular commercial product.

    box-office bomb

  9. (Australia, US, informal)A car in poor condition.

    развалю́хаrazvaljúxa

  10. (Australia, UK, slang)A large amount of money.

    make a bomb

    cost a bomb

  11. Something highly effective or attractive.

    (UK, slang)A success; the bomb.

    Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.

  12. (India, UK, slang)A very attractive woman.

    красо́ткаkrasótka, секс-бо́мбаsɛks-bómba

Examples

416 sentences
  1. We heard the bomb go off.

    Ми чули, як вибухнула бомба.

    ruМы слышали, как взорвалась бомба.

    deWir hörten die Bombe explodieren.

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  2. Tom thought it was a bomb.

    Том подумав, що це була бомба.

    ruТом решил, что это бомба.

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  3. Tom thought that it was a bomb.

    Том подумав, що це була бомба.

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  4. This bomb can kill many people.

    Ця бомба може вбити багато людей.

    deDiese Bombe kann viele Menschen töten.

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  5. I have a bomb.

    У мене бомба.

    ruУ меня бомба.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
device filled with explosives:
Русский
By meaning 5
device filled with explosives:
car in poor condition:
very attractive woman:
chemistry: container:
a jump into water for maximum splashing:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
device filled with explosives:
a jump into water for maximum splashing:

Origin

From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient

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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Forms

plural: bombs
Singularbomb
Pluralbombs

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion:bomb calorimeter
  • an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual:turkeydud

Word family

191 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • defuse the bomb
  • the bomb exploded
  • bomb exploded
  • bombed during the
  • was a bomb
  • when the bomb
  • was bombed during
  • bomb went off
  • atomic bomb
  • bombed during
  • find the bomb
  • bombs on the

See also

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