Usually means: Explosive device designed to detonate.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. bomb, the bomb: Merriam-Webster
  2. bomb, the bomb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bomb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bomb, the bomb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bomb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bomb, bomb: Wordnik
  7. bomb, the bomb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bomb, bomb, the Bomb, the bomb: Wiktionary
  9. bomb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bomb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bomb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bomb, the bomb: Dictionary.com
  13. bomb (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bomb: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. B.O.M.B. (album), BOMB (magazine), BOMB, Bomb (The Young Ones), Bomb (book), Bomb (icon), Bomb (kick), Bomb (magazine), Bomb (meteorology), Bomb (tank), Bomb, The Bomb (Band), The Bomb (band), The Bomb (disambiguation), The Bomb (film), The Bomb (novel), The Bomb, The bomb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bomb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bomb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bomb: Rhymezone
  19. bomb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bomb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bomb: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bomb: FreeDictionary.org
  23. bomb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bomb: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. bomb: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. bomb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  27. bomb: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  28. bomb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  3. bomb-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bomb (movie), bomb: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bomb: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. the bomb: Netlingo
  3. bomb: CCI Computer
  4. bomb: Hacking Lexicon
  5. Bomb (movie), bomb: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bomb (movie), bomb: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. BOMB: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. bomb: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bomb (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. bomb: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  5. Bomb, The bomb: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  6. B.O.M.B, B.O.M.B, B.O.M.B, BOMB: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)
  2. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Bomb: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
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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