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Bomb

noun

An explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions.

Strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion. Synonym: bomb calorimeter.

An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual. Synonyms: dud, turkey. "The meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"

verb

Throw bombs at or attack with bombs. Synonym: bombard.

Fail to get a passing grade. Synonyms: fail, flunk, flush it. "Did I fail the test?"

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"Bomb" Quotes from Famous Books

... on both sides. And then it came down to who committed the first cruelty and just how should you rank them? Was intentional torture for the few any the worse than the dispassionate act of dropping a bomb that produced quite the same, if not ...

— Decision • Frank M. Robinson

... and long, and it echoed through the room and throughout the corridors. It sounded to Malone like the blast of a small bomb, or possibly a grenade. Startled himself by the volume of sound he had managed to ...

— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett

... will eat you," says the old saw, but, like most other proverbs, it will not admit of universal application. There is a way of being honey that is thoroughly successful and extremely popular, and constitutes a kind of armour that is bomb-proof. ...

— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida

... I were visiting a group of anarchists," said Rhoda plaintively, "and had innocently passed round a bomb on which ...

— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow

... flung into the quiet pool the bomb of her approaching wedding with one of the best "catches" of New South Wales, all other topics faded into insignificance, and every woman who had the slightest acquaintance with the bride-elect called on her to warn her against the horrors to be discovered after she ...

— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin

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