Etymology : French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus deep hollow sound, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin
Pronunciation : 'bäm
Function : noun
Date : 1684
1. explosive device. drop and explode bombs; fail (Slang).
2. marijuana laced with heroi.
3. very good, see also:
da bomb. bomb\bomb\, v. t. to bombard. [obs.]bomb \bomb\, v. i. [cf. boom.] to sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [obs.] jonson.bomb \bomb\ , n. [f. bombe bombshell, fr. l. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, gr. .].
4. a great noise; a hollow sound. [obs.] a pillar of iron which if you had struck, would make a great bomb in the chamber beneath.
5. (mil.) a shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. see:
shell.
6. a bomb ketch.bomb chest (mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion.bomb ketch,bomb vessel (naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel.bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing.
7. A great noise; a hollow sound.
8. A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars.
9. See Shell.
10. A bomb ketch.
11. To bombard.
12. To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. an explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
13. 1. A bomb is a device which explodes and damages or destroys a large area. Bombs went off at two London train stations It's not known who planted the bomb Most of the bombs fell in the south There were two bomb explosions in the city overnight.
14. Nuclear weapons are sometimes referred to as the bomb. They are generally thought to have the bomb.
15. When people bomb a place, they attack it with bombs. Airforce jets bombed the airport. + bombing bombings bomb·ing Aerial bombing of rebel positions is continuing There has been a series of car bombings. see also:
petrol bomb, pipe bomb. In volcanology, any unconsolidated volcanic material that has a diameter greater than.
16. 25 in. (32 mm). Bombs form from clots of wholly or partly liquid lava ejected during a volcanic explosion; they solidify and become rounded during flight. The final shape is determined by the initial size, viscosity, and flight velocity of the magma. atomic bomb depth bomb hydrogen bomb thermonuclear bomb H bomb neutron bomb smart bomb buzz bomb flying bomb.