bomb

Meaning

Noun

1. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
2. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
3. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
4. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
5. (colloquial) An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
6. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
7. (slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
8. (informal) A car in poor condition.
9. (slang) A large amount of money.
10. (slang) Something highly effective or attractive.
11. (slang) Something highly effective or attractive.
12. Something highly effective or attractive.
13. Something highly effective or attractive.
14. (slang) Something highly effective or attractive.
15. (slang) Something highly effective or attractive.
16. (slang) Something highly effective or attractive.
17. A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
18. A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
19. (obsolete) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
20. (slang) A woman’s breast.
21. A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
22. (slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
23. (colloquial) 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.

Verb

1. To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
2. To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
3. (informal) To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
4. (informal) To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
5. (informal) To move at high speed.
6. (slang) To make oneself drunk.
7. (slang) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
8. (slang) To fail dismally.
9. (slang) To crash.
10. (slang) To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
11. (obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
12. (slang) Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”)

Adj

Great, awesome.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɒm/

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.