bomb

1. bomb (noun) — sense 1

Definition: An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.

Example: The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb.

2. bomb (noun) — sense 2

Definition: An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.: The atomic bomb.

Example: During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.

3. bomb (noun) — sense 3

Definition: An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.: Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.

Example: If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.

4. bomb (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.

Example: Italy had bombed cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.

5. bomb (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.: To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.

Example: School days have been missed or cut short many times to accommodate soccer travel through the years, but this return felt different. Photos posted on his social media documenting the experience were seen by classmates, many of whom bombed him with questions about his future in the sport.

6. bomb (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.

7. bomb (adj) — sense 7

Definition: Great, awesome.

Example: Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!