bomb
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
- 2.
(colloquial)Any explosive charge.
The mineworkers are setting their bombs.
- 3.
(in compounds)(in combination) A bag or balloon containing a substance such as water, flour, or paint, designed to burst and splatter.
The children are playing with water bombs in the garden.
Activists threw paint bombs at the famous artwork.
- 4.
(colloquial, figuratively)(colloquial, figurative) Anything that is at risk of exploding (literally) or that has exploded.
That turkey fryer is a bomb waiting to go off.
The gas leak tragically turned the house into a bomb.
- 5.
(India, South, colloquial)(South India, colloquial) A fart.
He just dropped a bomb.
- 6.
(slang)A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
box-office bomb
- 7.
(Australia, US, informal)A car in poor condition.
Đồng nghĩa: lemon, rustbucket
- 8.
(Australia, UK, slang)A large amount of money.
make a bomb
cost a bomb
2011, Bibe, A Victim, page 38, He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.
Đồng nghĩa: fortune, packet, pretty penny
- 9.
Something highly effective or attractive.
- 10.
A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
- 11.
(chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
- 12.
(obsolete)A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive, transitive)To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
2000, Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research, Volumes 32-33, page 65, 15 May: US jets bombed air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally bombing civilian targets. (AP)
- 2.
(informal)To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
- 3.
(informal)To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
- 4.
(especially, informal)To move at high speed.
I was bombing down the road on my motorbike.
- 5.
(reflexive, slang)To make oneself drunk.
TED: The champagne you ordered, sir. MAN: No time for this. Leave it on ice. WIFE: But I want some now... MAN: There'll be plenty for you at the party, baby, you can bomb yourself all you want at the party.
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(slang)To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
- 7.
(ambitransitive, slang)To fail dismally.
I totally bombed that exam.
2000, Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview, in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, Comic Book Artist Collection, page 12, Carmen: […] Then it bombed and it bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I′m trying everything I can but it′s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.
- 8.
(intransitive, slang)To crash.
- 9.
(slang, transitive)To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
Đồng nghĩa: blow up
- 10.
(obsolete)To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
- 11.
(slang)Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”).
Đồng nghĩa: parachute
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(slang)Great, awesome.
Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!
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From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (a booming sound), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (booming, humming, buzzing), of the sound itself. bombe. Compare boom.