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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

... "yes, it is no trifling commission that can call people that I shall not name out upon the water in such a night as this. It was in just such weather that I saw the Vesuvius ketch go to a place so deep, that her own mortar would not have been able to have sent a bomb into the open air, had hands and fire been there ...

— Great Sea Stories • Various

... a chance that they might have planted a bomb in the House of Yat-Zar, here. I knew they'd either do that or let the place entirely alone. I suppose they were so confident of getting away with this that they didn't want to damage the conveyer or the conveyer chamber. They expected to use them, themselves, ...

— Temple Trouble • Henry Beam Piper

... the grape arbor for good measure. He has also consumed two hammocks, a tennis racket and the tar paper roof of the auto shed. He is fond of launching offensives, and his favorite method of warfare is a sudden attack from the rear. He is bomb proof, bullet proof and gas proof, and the only thing in the universe he is afraid of is an open umbrella. Not a few worthy members of this stately community have gained the impression that I am not ...

— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey

... shell from sea, by bomb from air, Our greeting shall be sped, Making each English homestead A mansion of the dead. And even Grey will tremble As falls each iron word: "God punish England, brother!— Yea! Punish her, ...

— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... desperado, A bomb, a stink-pot, a granado; That's ready primed, and charged to break, And ...

— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay

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