bomb

bomb
[[t]bɒm[/t]]
n.
1) mil 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) mil any explosive device used as a weapon:
a time bomb; a smoke bomb; a car bomb[/ex]
3) gel a rough spherical or ellipsoidal mass of lava, ejected from a volcano and hardened while falling
4) an aerosol can and its contents
5) spo a long forward pass in football
6) cvb Slang.
a) an absolute failure
b) brit. a success; hit
7) cvb the bomb
a) phs
atomic bomb
b) phs nuclear weapons collectively
8) to hurl bombs at or drop bombs upon, as from an airplane; bombard
9) sl. to defeat decisively; trounce
10) to hurl or drop bombs
11) Slang. to fail decisively; flop (sometimes fol. by out)
12) cvb Informal. to move very quickly
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Etymology: 1580–90; earlier bom(b)e < Sp bomba (de fuego) ball (of fire) bomb′able, adj.

From formal English to slang. 2014.

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