bomb

Etymology
From, from , from , from , imitative of the sound itself. . Compare.

Noun

 * 1) An explosive device used or intended as a weapon,  one dropped from an aircraft.
 * 2)  The atomic bomb.
 * 3)  Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
 * 4)  A mortar shell.
 * 5)  Any explosive charge.
 * 6)  A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
 * 7)  A car in poor condition.
 * 8)  A large amount of money.
 * 9) * 2011, Bibe, A Victim, |cost+a+bomb%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4MH9TqmICbGaiAfXpcDVAQ&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=%22spent|cost%20a%20bomb%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false page 38,
 * He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.
 * 1)  Something highly effective or attractive.
 * 2)  A success; the bomb.
 * 3)  A very attractive woman.
 * 4)  An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
 * 5) An obscene word identified by its first letter.
 * 6)  A long forward pass.
 * 7)  A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
 * 8)  A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
 * 9) A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
 * 10)  A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
 * 11)  A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
 * 12)  A woman’s breast.
 * 13)  A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
 * 14)  A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
 * 15)  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.
 * 1) * 2011, Bibe, A Victim, |cost+a+bomb%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4MH9TqmICbGaiAfXpcDVAQ&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=%22spent|cost%20a%20bomb%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false page 38,
 * He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.
 * 1)  Something highly effective or attractive.
 * 2)  A success; the bomb.
 * 3)  A very attractive woman.
 * 4)  An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
 * 5) An obscene word identified by its first letter.
 * 6)  A long forward pass.
 * 7)  A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
 * 8)  A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
 * 9) A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
 * 10)  A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
 * 11)  A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
 * 12)  A woman’s breast.
 * 13)  A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
 * 14)  A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
 * 15)  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.
 * 1)  A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
 * 2) A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
 * 3)  A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
 * 4)  A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
 * 5)  A woman’s breast.
 * 6)  A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
 * 7)  A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
 * 8)  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.
 * 1)  A woman’s breast.
 * 2)  A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
 * 3)  A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
 * 4)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Usage notes

 * The diametrical slang meanings are somewhat distinguishable by the article. For “a success”, the phrase is generally . Otherwise bomb can mean “a failure”.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ቦምብ
 * Arabic: قُنْبُلَة
 * Hijazi Arabic: قُنْبُلة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: bonba
 * Belarusian: бо́мба
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: бо́мба
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chechen: бомба
 * Cherokee: ᏗᎵᏍᏓᏲᎯᎯ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 炸彈
 * Dungan: задан
 * Gan: 炸彈
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 炸彈
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: bumba
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , (shell)
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: બૉમ્બ
 * Hawaiian: pōkā pahū
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:, holkúla
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: bomba
 * Interlingua: bomba
 * Irish: buama
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, ボム, 爆ぜ弾
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: бомба
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بۆمبا
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ບົມ, ໂບມ
 * Latin: pyrobolus, bomba
 * Latvian: bumba
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Bomm
 * Macedonian: бомба
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: bomba
 * Manx: bleaystan
 * Marathi: ध्वम, बॉम्ब
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: bombe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , coisa explosiva
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: boma
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бо̑мба
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: බෝම්බය
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: འབོམ
 * Tigrinya: ቦምባ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: بَم, گولا, گولَہ
 * Uyghur: بومبا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: bom
 * Yiddish: באָמבע
 * Yoruba: bọ́ǹbù, àdó olóró
 * Zhuang: cadan


 * Dutch:
 * Swahili:


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Maltese: karakka
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * Greek: σεξοβόμβα
 * Italian:
 * Maltese: bomba
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:


 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Russian: сосу́д высо́кого давле́ния,


 * French:
 * German:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
 * 2) * 2000, Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research, Volumes 32-33, |%22bombed%22+-intitle:%22bombing|bombed%22&dq=%22bombing%22|%22bombed%22+-intitle:%22bombing|bombed%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=89H9TpLeI8eUiAfyq8W7AQ&redir_esc=y page 65,
 * 15 May: US jets bombed air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally bombing civilian targets. (AP)
 * 1)  To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
 * 2) To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
 * 3) To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
 * 4)  To move at high speed.
 * 5)  To make oneself drunk.
 * 6) * 1995, Four Rooms (film)
 * TED: The champagne you ordered, sir. MAN: No time for this. Leave it on ice. WIFE: But I want some now... MAN: There'll be plenty for you at the party, baby, you can bomb yourself all you want at the party.
 * 1) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
 * 2)  To fail dismally.
 * 3) * 2000, Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview, in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, Comic Book Artist Collection, |it+bombed%22+-intitle:%22bombing|bombed%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=v9b9Tsz_MM-QiQeBz5CADw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22he|it%20bombed%22%20-intitle%3A%22bombing|bombed%22&f=false page 12,
 * Carmen: Then it bombed and it bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I′m trying everything I can but it′s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.
 * 1)  To crash.
 * 2)  To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
 * 3)  To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
 * TED: The champagne you ordered, sir. MAN: No time for this. Leave it on ice. WIFE: But I want some now... MAN: There'll be plenty for you at the party, baby, you can bomb yourself all you want at the party.
 * 1) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
 * 2)  To fail dismally.
 * 3) * 2000, Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview, in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, Comic Book Artist Collection, |it+bombed%22+-intitle:%22bombing|bombed%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=v9b9Tsz_MM-QiQeBz5CADw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22he|it%20bombed%22%20-intitle%3A%22bombing|bombed%22&f=false page 12,
 * Carmen: Then it bombed and it bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I′m trying everything I can but it′s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.
 * 1)  To crash.
 * 2)  To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
 * 3)  To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
 * 1)  To crash.
 * 2)  To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
 * 3)  To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
 * 1)  To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

Derived terms




Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: قَنْبَلَ
 * Egyptian Arabic: فرقع, فجر
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: bombalamaq
 * Belarusian: бамбі́ць, разбамбі́ць, бамбардава́ць, бамбардзі́раваць, абстрэ́льваць, абстраля́ць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, vybombardovat
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: bombi
 * Estonian: pommitama
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: ყუმბარების დაშენა, დაბომბვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, הפציץ
 * Hindi: बमबारी करना
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: bombittaa
 * Interlingua: bombardar, bombar
 * Irish: buamáil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:, 포격(砲擊)하다
 * Latin: urbem tormentis verberare, bombardare
 * Latvian: bombardēt
 * Lithuanian: bombarduoti
 * Macedonian: бомбарди́ра
 * Norman: bomber
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, , ostrzeliwać, ostrzelać
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бомбарди́рати, бомбардовати
 * Roman:, bombardovati
 * Slovak: bombardovať, vybombardovať
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, , розбомби́ти, обстрі́лювати, обстріля́ти
 * Vietnamese: ném bom
 * Volapük: boumön
 * Yakut: бомбалаа
 * Yoruba: ju bọ́ǹbù, ju àdó olóró


 * Czech: vybouchnout
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,


 * German: eine Arschbombe machen
 * Spanish: hacer la bomba

Adjective

 * 1)  Great, awesome.

Noun

 * a