See Also: bomb 1, noun(dictionary)
H-bomb(dictionary)
bomb(2)(dictionary)
bomb(1)(dictionary)
A-bomb(dictionary)
car bomb(dictionary)
The Bomb(finance)
Bomb(medicine)
bomb(encyclopedia)
smart bomb(dictionary)

bomb 1, noun (oh)



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1 ?weapon?
2 ?bad performance/event?
3 be the bomb
4 the bomb
5 cost a bomb
6 make a bomb
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[Date: 1600-1700; Language: French; Origin: bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus 'deep sound', from Greek bombos, from the sound]
?WEAPON?
a weapon made of material that will explode
::Fortunately the house was empty when the bomb exploded .
::The bomb went off at 9.30 in the morning.
::Enemy planes dropped over 200 bombs during the raid.
::Terrorists had planted a bomb somewhere in the station.
::One theory is that the bomb was detonated by remote control.
:: Unexploded bombs were found there as late as the 1960s.
:: a bomb attack on a crowded bus in the city centre
::The station was closed for six hours following a bomb threat .
:: the bomb blast that killed one and injured more than 100 people
-see also atomic bomb , car bomb , cluster bomb , hydrogen bomb , letter bomb , neutron bomb , nuclear bomb , parcel bomb , petrol bomb , smart bomb , smoke bomb , stink bomb , time bomb
?BAD PERFORMANCE/EVENT?
AmE informal a play, film, event etc that is not successful
::This is just another one of Hollywood's bland and boring bombs.
be the bomb
informal to be very good or exciting
::That new P Diddy CD is the bomb.
the bomb
used to describe nuclear weapons, and especially the hydrogen bomb
::Voices of dissent began to rise against the bomb.
cost a bomb
BrE informal to cost a lot of money
make a bomb
BrE informal to get a lot of money by doing something
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COLLOCATES for sense 1
a bomb explodes/goes off
drop a bomb
plant a bomb (=leave a bomb somewhere)
detonate a bomb (=make a bomb explode)
unexploded bomb
bomb attack
bomb threat
bomb blast