Bomb
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- An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
- A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
- That movie was a bomb.
- A success; the bomb.
- Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.
- A very attractive woman; a bombshell.
- An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
- It was an ordinary speech, until the president dropped a bomb: he would be retiring for medical reasons.
- Normally very controlled, he dropped the F-bomb and cursed the paparazzi.
- The atomic bomb.
- During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.
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- The diametrical slang meanings are somewhat distinguishable by the article. For “a success”, the phrase is generally the bomb. Otherwise bomb can mean “a failure”.
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