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▸ noun: (dated, often with the) The atomic bomb.
▸ noun: (figurative) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
▸ noun: (historical or archaic) A grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell.
▸ noun: (colloquial) Any explosive charge.
▸ noun: (colloquial, figurative) Anything that is at risk of exploding (literally) or that has exploded.
▸ noun: (slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
▸ noun: (US, Australia, informal) A car in poor condition.
▸ noun: (UK, Australia, slang) A large amount of money.
▸ noun: (social) Something highly effective or attractive.
▸ noun: (chiefly British, slang) A success; the bomb.
▸ noun: (chiefly British, India, slang) A very attractive woman.
▸ noun: (often in combination) An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
▸ noun: An obscene word identified by its first letter.
▸ noun: (American football, slang) A long forward pass.
▸ noun: (rugby, soccer, slang) A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
▸ noun: (basketball, slang) A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
▸ noun: A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
▸ noun: (chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
▸ noun: (slang) A woman’s breast.
▸ noun: (professional wrestling) A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
▸ noun: (slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
▸ noun: (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: (transitive, intransitive) To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively, often with with) To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
▸ verb: (informal)
▸ verb: To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
▸ verb: To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
▸ verb: (especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed.
▸ verb: (slang)
▸ verb: (reflexive) To make oneself drunk.
▸ verb: To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To fail dismally.
▸ verb: (intransitive, computing) To crash.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
▸ verb: (obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
▸ verb: (slang) Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”)
▸ adjective: (slang) Great, awesome.
▸ noun: (informal) The atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack.
▸ noun: (historical, archaic) Ellipsis of bomb ship. [(military, nautical, historical) A ship armed with high-angle mortars firing explosive or carcass shells, and specialized for shore bombardment.]
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atomic bomb,
hydrogen bomb,
dirty bomb,
pipe bomb,
car bomb,
suicide bomb,
cluster bomb,
incendiary bomb,
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