bombn.

Brit.

/bɒm/, U.S.

/bɑm/

Forms: 1500s bome, 1600s bombe, bombo, boom(b, 1600s– bomb.

Etymology: < French bombe, < Spanish bomba (see first quot.), probably < bombo ‘a bumming or humming noise’ < Latin bombus. The word is thus ultimately identical with boom. Compare the earliest English instance bome, directly < Spanish; also 17th cent. bombo from Spanish or Italian Variously pronounced: see the rhymes: in the British army

/bʌm/ was formerly usual.

†1. Transl. of Spanish bomba de fuego ‘a ball of wilde-fire,’ Minsheu. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > incendiary missile

fireballc1485

stopsel1489

firework1528

ball?a1549

firepot?a1549

bomb1588

powder pot1611

fire-trunk1639

1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 65 They vse..in their wars..many bomes of fire, full of olde iron, and arrowes made with powder & fire worke, with the which they do much harme and destroy their enimies.

a. An explosive projectile consisting of a hollow iron sphere filled with gunpowder or some other charge, and fired by a fuse ignited in the act of discharge from the mortar; a bombshell; now generally called a shell. In modern use: a case filled with explosive, inflammable material, poison gas, or smoke, etc., fired from a gun, dropped from aircraft, or thrown or deposited by hand. Also frequently in combination, as atomic bomb, flying bomb, gas bomb, incendiary bomb, etc. (see under the first elements).

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb

bomb1684

egg1917

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell

cartouche1611

shell1651

bomb1684

bombshell1708

artillery shell1856

plonker1917

streetcar1920

1684 London Gaz. No. 1937/2 They shoot their Bombes near two Miles, and they weigh 250 English Pounds a piece.

1687 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 275 I saw a trial of those devilish murdering, mischief-doing engines called bombs, shot out of the mortar-piece on Blackheath.

1687 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks II. 196 The Turks threw..quantities of Bomboes and Stink-pots.

1692 Siege Lymerick 5 800 Carts of Ball and Boombs.

1692 Siege Lymerick 6 600 Booms.

a1721 M. Prior Alma iii. 369 The longitude uncertain roams, In spite of Whiston and his bombs.

c1730 Young Sea-Piece in Poems (1757) I. 246 A thousand deaths the bursting bomb Hurls from her disembowel'd womb.

1830 R. Southey in Fraser's Mag. July 652 The hugest brazen mortar, That ever yet fired bomb, Could not have shocked this fiendish beast As did that Holy Thumb.

1914 Times 9 Oct. 6/5 A German aeroplane flew over the outskirts of Paris early this morning and threw several bombs.

1914 Whitaker's Almanack 821/2 Lieut. Marix, who also made an attack on the Dusseldorf shed, and by means of a bomb destroyed it.

1940 Times 15 Aug. 4/3 Numerous direct hits with heavy calibre bombs were scored..and the crew of one aircraft whose bombs fell in a line across the main buildings, reported that one had hit and destroyed the main power house.

1940 Times 17 Oct. 4/4 Almost as soon as the sirens sounded bombs fell in some districts in the London area.

1943 Times Weekly 18 Aug. 18/4 About 10 tons of light demolition bombs, besides incendiary bombs, were scattered over a wide area.

b. bomb Maxim n. a Maxim gun (Maxim n.⁴ 1).

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun > types of

mitrailleuse1867

mitrailleur1869

Gatling gun1870

light machine gun1883

Gardner1884

Maxim1884

volley gun1884

Nordenfelt1885

Maxim1888

camel-gun1891

Maxim–Nordenfeldt gun1898

pom-pom1899

bomb Maxim1900

Lewis (machine) gun1913

Spandau guna1918

Vickers1917

LMG1922

Spandau1929

Bren1937

1900 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 2/2 Our soldiers..had not so much as the moral support of a bomb Maxim with them.

c. With the: a pregnant expression for the atomic or hydrogen bomb, as used or to be used by any country as a weapon of war, and regarded as unique because of its utterly destructive effects.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > atomic or hydrogen

bomb1945

1932 H. Nicolson Public Faces i. 23 True it was that their acute distaste for the bomb..did credit to their humanity, to their state of civilisation.]

1945 Times 15 Aug. 5/5 (headline) Victory and the Bomb.

1959 Sunday Times 5 Apr. 19/5 Twenty years ago, I mean: before the war, the Bomb, the satellites, the space-travellers and the nudist paradises.

1966 Listener 20 Jan. 83/1 One of the most persistent fallacies of the..debate about nuclear weapons is the proposition that ‘the bomb’, as it has come to be called almost with affection, has put an end to war.

d. Short for radium bomb n. at radium n. Compounds 1d.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by radiation > [noun] > source

radium plaque1919

seed1924

radon seed1925

radium bomb1929

bomb1930

teleradium1930

telecobalt1948

sealed source1962

1930 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Feb. 232/2 The apparatus to be described was designed..to meet the problem of making..use of the 4 grams of national radium that had been lent to the hospital for use as a ‘bomb’.

e. A success (esp. in entertainment); also U.S., a failure. like a bomb and variants: with great speed; with considerable effectiveness or success. colloquial.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > very swiftly

as swift (also quick, fleet) as thought?c1225

like lightning1567

(as) quick as lightning1580

like wildfire1699

like stour1787

(as) quick as a wink1825

like smoke1832

quick as a streak1839

like sixty1848

(as) quick as thought1871

at a great lick1898

like a bat out of hell1921

like the clappers1948

like a bomb1954

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > there is much success [phrase] > with great success

in a big way1840

like a bandit1943

like a bomb1954

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > that which is a failure

fizzle1846

fiasco1855

frost1874

blue duck1889

wash-out1902

blowout1925

turkey1927

flopperoo1936

stiff1937

muck-up1942

bomb1954

fizzer1957

lead balloon1960

damp squib1963

bummer1967

downer1976

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > that which is successful

success1667

good thing1764

go1780

out1843

winner1913

success story1925

socko1937

gangbuster1946

bomb1954

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > item in > type of item

star turn1885

sister act1893

showstopper1916

patter act1941

single act1952

bomb1954

stunt-

1954 Amer. Speech 29 99 Like a bomb,..very fast.

1961 New Yorker 28 Oct. 43/2 What had once been called a failure became a ‘bomb’.

1962 Listener 11 Oct. 581/2 Leslie Crowther, introducing The Black and White Minstrel Show..from the Victoria Palace, remarked, ‘We're going like a bomb here.’

1963 The Beatles 5 Once, Paul M^cCartney and I played Reading as the Nurk Twins. Went down a bomb, I recall.

1967 A. Diment Dolly Dolly Spy ii. 15 His straight-backed ‘visitor's’ chair, which for pure discomfort would have gone down a bomb with the Gestapo.

f. A large sum of money. slang.

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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > large sum

pounda1225

ransom?a1300

fother14..

gob1542

mint1579

king's ransomc1590

abomination1604

coda1680

a pretty (also fine, fair, etc.) penny1710

plunk1767

big money1824

pot1856

big one?1863

a small fortune1874

four figures1893

poultice1902

parcel1903

bundle1905

pretty1909

real money1918

stack1919

packet1922

heavy sugar1926

motza1936

big bucks1941

bomb1958

wedge1977

megadollars1980

squillion1986

bank1995

1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights ii. 79 There are not many bent screws the reason being that many of them are to honest or to scared to do any trafficing but the ones that do make a bomb.

1963 M. Levinson Taxi! x. 122 Large original oil paintings..which, in cab-driver's language, looked as though they were ‘worth a bomb’.

1969 A. E. Lindop Sight Unseen xxiv. 202 Can I have that instead of the five pounds? I might flog it for a bomb in me old age.

g. A (large) marijuana cigarette; = bomber n. 3a. slang.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > marijuana or cannabis > cigarette

weed1917

stick1918

spliff1929

weed1929

reefer1931

joint1935

muggler1935

ju-ju1940

mezzroll1944

panatela1946

bomber1952

charge1957

bomb1960

number1963

doobie1967

smoke1967

cheeba1971

Thai stick1976

blunt1988

bifter1989

1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Sept. 589/4 The Scene is written by a junkie with a bee for bombs... Mr. Cooper, that is to say, was once a dope addict.

1967 E. Wymark As Good as Gold xiv. 204 First they simply smoke marijuana... They refer to the smokes as sticks or bombs, depending on their size.

1968 ‘J. Hudson’ Case of Need iii. i. 173 Bombs... You know... Speed. Lifts. Jets. Bennies.

†3. A mortar, a shell-gun. Obsolete. rare.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > mortar

potgun?1470

mortar1547

mortar-piece1570

pot-piecea1578

bomb1684

coehorn1705

royal1743

royal mortar1867

mortar gun1997

1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 95 The enemy..play'd on us with their Cannon and Bombs.

†4.

a. A small war-vessel carrying mortars for throwing bombs. Called more fully bomb-ketch n., bomb-galliot n., bomb-ship n., bomb-vessel n. at Compounds 1a, and bombard n. 2.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > bomb-vessel

bombardier1686

bomb-ketch1693

bomb-vessel1693

palander1693

bomb-ship1695

bomb1704

bomb-galliot1715

bombard1799

bombardier-galliot1807

bombarder1866

galliot1867

1704 London Gaz. No. 4029/3 Portsmouth Bomb.

1704 London Gaz. No. 3992/3 Her Majesty's Ships the Mortar and Terror Bombs.

1747 J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) i. 21 Those who have the command of sloops, bombs, fireships.

1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 45 He proceeded with the Thunder bomb..to bombard the town.

1813 Examiner 18 Jan. 47/1 18 sloops—4 bombs.

b. An old car (see also quot. 1953). Australian and New Zealand slang.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > old, worn-out

crock1903

struggle-buggy1925

heap1926

crate1928

jalopy1929

clunker1930

junker1932

iron1935

fixer-upper1948

bomb1953

banger1962

hooptie1968

skedonk1970

gambo1971

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun] > old

bomb1953

1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks iv. 106 Bomb, an old car or motor cycle.

1961 Coast to Coast 1959–60 120 Get out, buy yourself a car... Do as I did, start with a bomb and keep adding a bit and trading it in till you've got what you want.

1965 M. Shadbolt Among Cinders xviii. 163 The car..wasn't much more than an old bomb.

1967 F. Sargeson Hangover vii. 53 We had a job shoving her into the bomb.

5. A roundish mass of lava thrown out of a volcano. Chiefly in volcanic bomb.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > ejected volcanic material > [noun] > volcanic bomb

bomb1780

breadcrust bomb1888

1780 W. Hamilton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 63 Others again burst into a thousand pieces soon after their emission from the crater: they might very properly be called volcanic bombs.

1798 R. Jameson Outl. Mineral. Shetland Islands 56 Any appearance of..what the Volcanists call volcanic bombs.

1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. Gloss. 83 Volcanic Bombs, volcanos throw out sometimes detached masses of melted lava, which, as they fall, assume rounded forms (like bomb-shells), and are often elongated into a pear shape.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xxiii. 589 In some parts rounded volcanic bombs, which must have assumed this form, when projected red-hot from the crater, lie strewed on the surface.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 193 Sometimes the masses of lava..fall as..volcanic bombs.

1956 W. Edwards in D. L. Linton Sheffield 8 Tuffs are especially well seen in the Ashaver anticline,..and are dark green, brown, and purple well-bedded basaltic ashes with ‘bombs’ of basalt, limestone, and chert.

1969 Nature 8 Nov. 557/2 Volcanic activity occurred at several places along this fracture and fresh bombs rest on the ice close to the edge of the chasm.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. See also bomb-ketch n., bomb-proof adj. and n., bombshell n.

bomb battery n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > bombardment

battery1548

cannonade1562

cannonading1637

bombarding1687

bomb battery1695

bombardment1702

cannon fire1725

bombard1807

shelling1860

hate1915

barrage1916

box barrage1916

creeping barrage1916

area bombardment1918

area shoot1919

shoot1941

stonk1944

1695 London Gaz. No. 3124/2 This day the Bomb-Battery was begun.

bomb-bed n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > storage room or compartment > place for storing bombs

bomb-bed1850

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 100 The beams which support the bomb-bed in bomb-vessels.

bomb-cart n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > bomb-cart

bomb-cart1712

1712 London Gaz. No. 4970/2 Two Bomb Carts..and five Pieces of Ordnance.

1755 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 377/2 Bomb-carts, filled with necessaries for the camp, were likewise sent.

bomb-chest n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine

petard1566

powder minea1639

fougade1643

bomb-chest1704

caisson1704

globe of compression1771

torpedo1786

fougasse1832

stifler1836

landmine1875

observation mine1886

egg1917

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Bomb-chest, is a kind of chest, which being filled with Gunpowder and Bombs..is placed under Ground to blow it up into the Air, together with those that stand upon it.

bomb-galliot n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > bomb-vessel

bombardier1686

bomb-ketch1693

bomb-vessel1693

palander1693

bomb-ship1695

bomb1704

bomb-galliot1715

bombard1799

bombardier-galliot1807

bombarder1866

galliot1867

1715 London Gaz. No. 5301/2 Some Bomb Galliots.

bomb-quay n.

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1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxix. 250 The entertainers landed at the bomb-keys.

bomb-ship n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > bomb-vessel

bombardier1686

bomb-ketch1693

bomb-vessel1693

palander1693

bomb-ship1695

bomb1704

bomb-galliot1715

bombard1799

bombardier-galliot1807

bombarder1866

galliot1867

1695 London Gaz. No. 3086/2 Having been to view the Bomb ships in the Maese.

1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 136 The bomb-ship and schooner gun-vessels made their escape.

bomb-vessel n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > bomb-vessel

bombardier1686

bomb-ketch1693

bomb-vessel1693

palander1693

bomb-ship1695

bomb1704

bomb-galliot1715

bombard1799

bombardier-galliot1807

bombarder1866

galliot1867

1693 London Gaz. No. 2893/4 Bomb vessels lately Launch'd.

1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 69 Bomb Vessels.

bomb-battered adj.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc.

bomb-battered1853

blitzed1941

bomb-pitted1943

bomb-damaged1945

bomb-shattered1945

atomized1946

war-damaged1946

1853 J. S. C. Abbott in Harper's New Monthly Mag. Mar. 456/1 Having fled from their bomb-battered and burning dwellings.

c. Also in many obvious combinations relating to aerial bombs.

bomb-aimer n.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > aircrew with specific duties

observer1870

strafer1915

air gunner1916

air bomber1918

gunner1918

rear gunner1918

bombardier1932

bomb-aimer1935

tail gunner1939

tail-end Charlie1941

arse-end Charlie1942

waist-gunner1942

spotter pilot1944

1935 Meccano Mag. Oct. 577/2 The telegraphist is also acting as bomb-aimer.

bomb-aiming n.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > aiming of bombs

bomb-sighting1931

bomb-aiming1937

1937 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 41 423 A stable platform for bomb-aiming.

1942 W. Simpson One of our Pilots is Safe ii. 18 We were..given an extra gun—firing downwards and backwards out of the bomb-aiming hatch.

bomb-carrier n.

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1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station vii. 109 The only standard bomb-carriers in service at this period were the single 16-lb bomb and the 20-lb gear for two Hale 20-lb bombs.

bomb-carrying n.

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1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station vii. 109 Equipping all the machines with bomb-carrying and release gear.

bomb-crater n.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > made by bomb

crater1839

crump-hole1914

bomb-crater1920

camouflet1941

1920 Blackwood's Mag. July 76/1 Ploughed up with bomb-craters.

bomb-damage n.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > from bombing, etc.

radiation damage1935

bomb-damage1941

1941 Partisan Rev. Nov. 498 I can see no bomb damage anywhere, except for a few churches.

1942 Ann. Reg. 1941 328 Four galleries..being closed on account of bomb damage.

bomb-dropper n.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > bomber

raider1908

bomber1917

night bomber1918

dart1925

bomb-dropper1928

flying boxcar1932

bombing plane1934

bomber aircraft1935

medium bomber1935

dive-bomber1937

heavy1943

nuisance raider1944

shuttle bomber1944

atomic bomber1945

interdictor1965

stealth1979

1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station vii. 104 The last three machines were classified as ‘Gun Machines’ and ‘Bomb Droppers’.

bomb-dropping n.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs

bomb-dropping1910

bombing1915

1910 R. Ferris How it Flies xvii. 372 There have been many contests by aviators in ‘bomb-dropping’.

bomb-dump n. [dump n.⁴ 1c]

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [noun] > place for storing weapons > dump for bombs

bomb-dump1939

1939 R. Campbell Flowering Rifle vi. 148 Keep safe his bomb-dump while our patience lasts.

1941 Illustr. London News 198 728/2 Bombing up the 'planes is the work of the armourers, who also have charge of the vast station bomb-dump.

bomb-load n.

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1921 Aeronaut. Jrnl. Mar. 166 The bomb load of the standard..four-engined machines amounted to 3,000 kilograms.

bomb-maker n.

ΚΠ

1905 Westm. Gaz. 19 June 5/1 The bomb-makers..were inextricably trapped.

bomb-raid n.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid

raid1908

bombing offensive1917

bombing raid1917

bomb-raid1917

bombing attack1942

prang1943

1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 259 A daylight bomb raid is seldom a complete failure.

1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 29 Bomb-raid damage repairs in London.

bomb-release n.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > bombs carried by aircraft > bomb release mechanism

bomb-release1928

1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station v. 87 Very little work had been done with bomb releases.

1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station vii. 110 Bomb-release gears.

1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xiii. 224 Bomb release-slips.

bomb-thrower n.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > one who lays or operates mines or bombs > [noun]

mine master1598

petarder1611

petardier1632

miner1692

springer1860

explosionist1868

dynamitard1882

dynamitist1882

dynamiter1883

dynamiteur1883

bomb-thrower1891

bomber1915

car bomber1919

letter bomber1947

firebomber1957

plastiqueur1961

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Dec. 5/2 The bomb-thrower, who lost his life in attempting that of Mr. Russell Sage.

1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 24 The bomb-thrower seized the missile quickly,..threw the bomb, and jumped back under cover.

bomb-throwing n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of mines and explosives > [noun] > use of bombs

bombing1691

bomb-throwing1905

suicide bombing1940

clobbering1948

1905 Westm. Gaz. 13 May 7/2 The workmen [of St. Petersburg] practised shooting and bomb-throwing.

1908 Daily Chron. 14 Aug. 4/4 The attack from bomb-throwing airships is very little, if any, more alarming than from a gunboat.

bomb-damaged adj.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc.

bomb-battered1853

blitzed1941

bomb-pitted1943

bomb-damaged1945

bomb-shattered1945

atomized1946

war-damaged1946

1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 157 Bomb-damaged houses in the London area.

1954 R. Macaulay Last Lett. to Friend (1962) 150 It was one of the City churches very little bomb-damaged, I think.

1954 ‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom i. vi. 77 A row of bomb-damaged houses.

bomb-pitted adj.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc.

bomb-battered1853

blitzed1941

bomb-pitted1943

bomb-damaged1945

bomb-shattered1945

atomized1946

war-damaged1946

1943 T. Horsley Find, Fix & Strike 15 Operating from bomb-pitted aerodromes.

bomb-shattered adj.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc.

bomb-battered1853

blitzed1941

bomb-pitted1943

bomb-damaged1945

bomb-shattered1945

atomized1946

war-damaged1946

1945 H. Read Coat of Many Colours lxvi. 319 The bomb-shattered ruins of human tenderness and faith.

1949 M. Laski Little Boy Lost iii. xvi. 209 The emptiness of the bomb-shattered square.

C2.

bomb alley n. Service slang an area repeatedly attacked by bombing.

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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > front or front line > area subjected to gunfire or bombing

fire zone1873

beaten zone1918

bomb alley1942

1942 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 10 June–1 Sept. 263 The narrow stretch of water between the island of Pantellaria and Sicily, officially known as the Sicilian Channel, but called Bomb Alley by the Navy and Merchant Service.

1945 Ann. Reg. 1944 76 The inhabitants of the so-called ‘bomb alley’ had also suffered considerably.

bomb bay n. a compartment in an aircraft for holding bombs.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > bombs carried by aircraft > bomb-rack

bomb-rack1917

bomb bay1918

1918 Aeronaut. Insp. Directorate Data Bk. (Handley Page V/1500) 3 The bomb bay is rectangular, and built entirely of spruce.

1934 Flight 15 Feb. 156/1 Bombs are internally stowed in a bomb bay closed by doors controlled by the bomber.

bomb calorimeter n. (see quot. 1928).

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > measurement of heat > instrument > specific

bomb1747

Joly's steam calorimeter1894

bomb calorimeter1902

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 444/1 The potential energy..is measured by the heat of combustion in the bomb calorimeter.

1928 A. B. Callow Food & Health 29 The apparatus used for this laboratory oxidation is a small calorimeter which is known as the bomb calorimeter, because the oxidation takes place inside a thick-walled vessel which in some ways resembles a bomb.

bomb-disposal n. the removal and detonation of unexploded and delayed-action bombs; usually attributive, esp. in bomb-disposal squad.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > bombing party > bomb-disposal squad

bomb-disposal squad1940

1940 War Illustr. 4 Oct. 338 The Bomb Disposal Sections of the Royal Engineers whose job it is to dig up and destroy the time-bombs.

1940 War Illustr. 6 Dec. 612 The bomb-disposal squads of the Royal Engineers..described..the removal of delayed-action bombs.

bomb door n. usually in plural: the movable covering of a bomb bay.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > device to release bombs from aircraft > movable covering of bomb bay

bomb door1939

1939 Meccano Mag. Mar. 150/3 Large bomb doors cover the bottom of the fuselage.

bomb-happiness n.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > shell-shock, etc.

shell shock1915

combat fatigue1943

bomb-happiness1944

survivor syndrome1968

1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target iii. 29 Now, when ‘bomb-happiness’ and the ‘jitterbugs’ threatened to touch the troop with palsied fingers.

bomb-happy adj. [happy adj. and n. Compounds 2] colloquial mentally affected by exposure to a bomb or shell explosion at close quarters; shell-shocked.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > shell-shock, etc.

shell-shocked1915

flak-happy1938

bomb-happy1943

rock happy1943

sand-happy1943

bushed1952

1943 San Francisco Chron. 1 Dec. 2/2 A barrage so incessant..that many troops of the crack 65th Nazy Division were rendered ‘bomb happy’ and fell easy prisoners.

1944 A. Jacob Traveller's War iv. 68 I was, in fact, slightly ‘bomb happy’.

bomb-lance n. a harpoon with an explosive in its head.

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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whaling equipment > [noun] > harpoon > types of

gun-harpoon1867

bomb-lance1883

rocket bomb1883

toggle-iron1884

toggle-harpoon1888

stabbing harpoon1895

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 199 The bomb-lance, darting-bomb, and rocket-bomb.

1901 F. T. Bullen Sack of Shakings 18 He took..an extra supply of bomb-lances, in the use of which he was an acknowledged expert.

1917 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 590/1 This monster..was killed by a bomb-lance from a whale-boat.

bomb line n. (see quot. 1944).

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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun] > limits for bombing within

bomb line1943

1943 L. Cheshire Bomber Pilot i. 9 On the large map on the wall was a red line; they called it the bomblin [e] , and it was supposed to represent the area behind which we could [not] bomb.

1944 Times 17 Apr. 3/3 The ‘bomb line’—that is, the line ahead of the troops behind which aircraft supporting the ground forces should not drop their bombs.

1961 W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio ii. 23 We could not..pick up any feature we could recognise... We turned tail and flew disconsolately back over the bomb line.

bomb-rack n. a rack (in an aircraft) for holding bombs.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > bombs carried by aircraft > bomb-rack

bomb-rack1917

bomb bay1918

1917 Advis. Comm. Aeronaut., Rep. & Mem. No. 378 Tests were made up at the request of the Air Board, who supplied drawings of a bomb rack to carry two 112-lb. bombs.

1918 Times Engin. Suppl. 26 Apr. 88/1 The bomb-racks in the covered-in passage..are capable of holding five 25-pounder bombs.

1944 Times 23 May 4/2 The Spitfires..saw the German aircraft pass them at high speed with bomb-racks full.

bomb run n. (also bombing run) the line of flight of bombing aircraft over the target.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > line of flight over target

bombing run1941

bomb run1941

1941 Sci. Digest Nov. 53/1 The pilot controls the ‘bomb run’, which is the line of flight of the plane.

1944 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 12 Apr.–26 Sept. 30/2 The deliberate bomb run through the target flak itself.

bomb sight n. (also bombing sight) a device for sighting the target in bombing from an aeroplane.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > bombs carried by aircraft > bomb sight

bomb sight1917

bombing sight1920

Mickey1944

1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings vii. 176 Owing to the difficulty of correct aim, before the advent of modern bomb-sights, all the early raids were carried out from a low altitude.

1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station v. 87 Of the available bomb sights, the most practical and successful were those invented by Lieutenant Scott, U.S.N., and Zeiss.

bomb-sighting n.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > aiming of bombs

bomb-sighting1931

bomb-aiming1937

1931 Air Annual Brit. Empire 230 The platform is filled with navigation and bomb-sighting equipment for the observer's use.

bomb-site n. ground on which buildings, etc., have been destroyed by aerial bombing.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > place of destruction

sink1648

bomb-site1945

1945 Daily Express 23 May 3/3 (caption) British workmen from a bomb-site about 100 yards away.

1959 Times 8 Dec. 5/6 Many of the bomb-site parks in central London are seldom full.

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American Football. A long, looping, forward pass.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres

rush1857

punt-out1861

goal-kicking1871

safety1879

safety touchdown1879

scrimmage1880

rushing1882

safety touch1884

touchback1884

forward pass1890

run1890

blocking1891

signal1891

fake1893

onside kick1895

tandem-play1895

pass play1896

spiral1896

shift1901

end run1902

straight-arm1903

quarterback sneak1904

runback1905

roughing1906

Minnesota shift1910

quarterbacking1910

snap-back1910

pickoff1912

punt return1914

screen forward pass1915

screen pass1920

power play1921

sneak1921

passback1922

snap1922

defence1923

reverse1924

carry1927

lateral1927

stiff-arm1927

zone1927

zone defence1927

submarine charge1928

squib1929

block1931

pass rushing1933

safetying1933

trap play1933

end-around1934

straight-arming1934

trap1935

mousetrap1936

buttonhook1938

blitzing1940

hand-off1940

pitchout1946

slant1947

strike1947

draw play1948

shovel pass1948

bootleg1949

option1950

red dog1950

red-dogging1951

rollout1951

submarine1952

sleeper pass1954

draw1956

bomb1960

swing pass1960

pass rush1962

blitz1963

spearing1964

onsides kick1965

takeaway1967

quarterback sack1968

smash-mouth1968

veer1968

turn-over1969

bump-and-run1970

scramble1971

sack1972

nose tackle1975

nickel1979

pressure1981

1955 B. Oates Los Angeles Rams 51 That year Bob Waterfield and Elroy Hirsch had been the long-range bombers with, for example, a ninety-one yard touchdown in Chicago.]

1960 Compl. Guide Prof. Football 88 (caption) Ralph Gugliemi..threw four TD bombs in '59.

1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 23/8 The bomb carried from the Packer end zone to the Atlanta 44.

1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. c13/2 Shaw High quarterback Greg Shields stung Shaker Heights twice on long bombs to pace Shaw to its first Lake Erie League victory of the season, 14–7.

1984 J. Lawton All Amer. War Game ix. 113 A big bomb of a pass can illuminate the murkiest of games.

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bomb factory n. colloquial a place where bombs are illegally manufactured or prepared, for use in terrorist activities.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > explosives > illegally

bomb factory1975

1975 Facts on File 20 Dec. 952/3 Police said that the arrest of the four had been instrumental in uncovering a London ‘bomb factory’.

1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 2 Nov. 3/4 Madden had said he heard from a stallholder in Kingsland market that a bomb factory had been found in Albion Towers.

1986 Times 21 June 3/2 He had no idea the four people in the room were turning it into a bomb factory.

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bomb squad n. (a) a unit, usually a division of a police force or the armed forces, assigned to investigate the planting of (suspected) explosive devices and to neutralize them; (b) a terrorist group that plants explosive devices.

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1910 Chicago Tribune 20 Sept. 1/5 Capt. Wood..organized a ‘bomb squad’ more than a year ago to search for the bomb thrower.

1920 Times 21 Sept. 10/4 Fischer came from Canada willingly in the company of two members of what is known as the New York ‘Bomb Squad’.

1992 Daily Mirror 3 Oct. 2/4 The lost blueprint is the second Palace security scandal revealed by the Mirror, following yesterday's alert on the book lashed as a ‘guide’ for an IRA bomb squad.

2004 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 12 June b3 A bomb squad ‘rendered the device safe’ and it was removed for investigation.

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Chemistry. A thick-walled, sealable metal container in which combustion or other reaction can take place; esp. = bomb calorimeter n. at Compounds 2.In early quots. apparently referring to the casing of a projectile bomb (sense 2a), used in an experiment.iron, pressure bomb: see the first element.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > measurement of heat > instrument > specific

bomb1747

Joly's steam calorimeter1894

bomb calorimeter1902

1747 B. Martin Philosophia Britannica I. 25 Let a Bomb of cast Iron six or eight Inches Diameter, and about one Inch thick, be fill'd with Water.

1838 Trans. Inst. Civil Engineers 2 38 A cast-iron bomb..filled with water and subjected to an intense frigorific operation.

1880 Science 4 Sept. 120/2 An apparatus for measuring the heat of combustion of gases by detonation, which consists essentially of a bomb suspended in a calorimeter.

1911 Pop. Mech. Aug. 361/2 (caption) Watching the rise in the temperature of water surrounding ‘bomb’ of a calorimeter in which one gram of dry, pulverized coal has been burned.

1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students x. 195 The reaction is not carried out in a test-tube immersed in the water of the calorimeter, but in a so-called ‘bomb’ of steel which is immersed in the water.

2012 D. W. Oxtoby et al. Princ. Mod. Chem. (ed. 7) xii. 532 The reaction is initiated by a heated wire inside the bomb.

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Surfing. A very large, powerful wave, esp. one that is much larger than others in a set.

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1996 Surfer May 50/1 (caption) Donnie Solomon rides a bomb behind Kelly Slater and Ross Clarke-Jones.

2001 Adrenalin No. 9. 127/3 The Cortes Bank off the California coast, where Parsons rode a 60-foot bomb.

2015 C. Marzo & R. Yehling Just add Water x. 123 A left-hand bomb of up to twenty feet.

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An aerosol spray pesticide or similar large can of a fogging (fog v.¹ 7) compound used to kill indoor flying insects. Frequently with preceding modifying word indicating the type of insect.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > insecticide or pesticide

acaricide1841

pyrethrum1876

benzene hexachloride1884

systemic1893

alphachloralose1894

pyrethrin1896

hexachlorethane1898

pesticide1933

bomb1944

bug juice1944

adulticide1945

miticide1946

chlordane1947

HCH1947

lindane1949

allethrin1950

Pybuthrin1951

isodrin1953

monosulfiram1953

mirex1962

naled1963

propoxur1964

methiocarb1966

carbofuran1968

aldicarb1969

pirimicarb1970

tickicide1971

methoprene1974

1944 Washington Post 16 Apr. ii. 2/7 The insect ‘bomb’ has become an integral part of field equipment and thus about 7,500,000 ‘bug bombs’ have been manufactured for military use.

1945 Sci. Monthly May p. vii (advt.) In his tent a soldier uses a bug bomb to destroy insect life—safeguarding health and increasing comfort in tropical jungles.

1996 Woman's Day (Sydney) 10 June 100/2 (advt.) Avoids the need to use harsh sprays, powders or flea bombs in summer.

2011 J. Eisenberg Bed Bug Survival Guide (Electronic ed.) 119 If you have a bed bug problem in one or two bedrooms, a bomb or fogger will spread it to the rest of your place.

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单词	bomb
释义	bombn. Brit. /bɒm/, U.S. /bɑm/ Forms: 1500s bome, 1600s bombe, bombo, boom(b, 1600s– bomb. Etymology: < French bombe, < Spanish bomba (see first quot.), probably < bombo ‘a bumming or humming noise’ < Latin bombus. The word is thus ultimately identical with boom. Compare the earliest English instance bome, directly < Spanish; also 17th cent. bombo from Spanish or Italian Variously pronounced: see the rhymes: in the British army /bʌm/ was formerly usual. †1. Transl. of Spanish bomba de fuego ‘a ball of wilde-fire,’ Minsheu. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > incendiary missile fireballc1485 stopsel1489 firework1528 ball?a1549 firepot?a1549 bomb1588 powder pot1611 fire-trunk1639 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 65 They vse..in their wars..many bomes of fire, full of olde iron, and arrowes made with powder & fire worke, with the which they do much harme and destroy their enimies. 2. a. An explosive projectile consisting of a hollow iron sphere filled with gunpowder or some other charge, and fired by a fuse ignited in the act of discharge from the mortar; a bombshell; now generally called a shell. In modern use: a case filled with explosive, inflammable material, poison gas, or smoke, etc., fired from a gun, dropped from aircraft, or thrown or deposited by hand. Also frequently in combination, as atomic bomb, flying bomb, gas bomb, incendiary bomb, etc. (see under the first elements). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb bomb1684 egg1917 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell cartouche1611 shell1651 bomb1684 bombshell1708 artillery shell1856 plonker1917 streetcar1920 1684 London Gaz. No. 1937/2 They shoot their Bombes near two Miles, and they weigh 250 English Pounds a piece. 1687 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 275 I saw a trial of those devilish murdering, mischief-doing engines called bombs, shot out of the mortar-piece on Blackheath. 1687 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks II. 196 The Turks threw..quantities of Bomboes and Stink-pots. 1692 Siege Lymerick 5 800 Carts of Ball and Boombs. 1692 Siege Lymerick 6 600 Booms. a1721 M. Prior Alma iii. 369 The longitude uncertain roams, In spite of Whiston and his bombs. c1730 Young Sea-Piece in Poems (1757) I. 246 A thousand deaths the bursting bomb Hurls from her disembowel'd womb. 1830 R. Southey in Fraser's Mag. July 652 The hugest brazen mortar, That ever yet fired bomb, Could not have shocked this fiendish beast As did that Holy Thumb. 1914 Times 9 Oct. 6/5 A German aeroplane flew over the outskirts of Paris early this morning and threw several bombs. 1914 Whitaker's Almanack 821/2 Lieut. Marix, who also made an attack on the Dusseldorf shed, and by means of a bomb destroyed it. 1940 Times 15 Aug. 4/3 Numerous direct hits with heavy calibre bombs were scored..and the crew of one aircraft whose bombs fell in a line across the main buildings, reported that one had hit and destroyed the main power house. 1940 Times 17 Oct. 4/4 Almost as soon as the sirens sounded bombs fell in some districts in the London area. 1943 Times Weekly 18 Aug. 18/4 About 10 tons of light demolition bombs, besides incendiary bombs, were scattered over a wide area. b. bomb Maxim n. a Maxim gun (Maxim n.⁴ 1). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun > types of mitrailleuse1867 mitrailleur1869 Gatling gun1870 light machine gun1883 Gardner1884 Maxim1884 volley gun1884 Nordenfelt1885 Maxim1888 camel-gun1891 Maxim–Nordenfeldt gun1898 pom-pom1899 bomb Maxim1900 Lewis (machine) gun1913 Spandau guna1918 Vickers1917 LMG1922 Spandau1929 Bren1937 1900 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 2/2 Our soldiers..had not so much as the moral support of a bomb Maxim with them. c. With the: a pregnant expression for the atomic or hydrogen bomb, as used or to be used by any country as a weapon of war, and regarded as unique because of its utterly destructive effects. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > atomic or hydrogen bomb1945 1932 H. Nicolson Public Faces i. 23 True it was that their acute distaste for the bomb..did credit to their humanity, to their state of civilisation.] 1945 Times 15 Aug. 5/5 (headline) Victory and the Bomb. 1959 Sunday Times 5 Apr. 19/5 Twenty years ago, I mean: before the war, the Bomb, the satellites, the space-travellers and the nudist paradises. 1966 Listener 20 Jan. 83/1 One of the most persistent fallacies of the..debate about nuclear weapons is the proposition that ‘the bomb’, as it has come to be called almost with affection, has put an end to war. d. Short for radium bomb n. at radium n. Compounds 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by radiation > [noun] > source radium plaque1919 seed1924 radon seed1925 radium bomb1929 bomb1930 teleradium1930 telecobalt1948 sealed source1962 1930 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Feb. 232/2 The apparatus to be described was designed..to meet the problem of making..use of the 4 grams of national radium that had been lent to the hospital for use as a ‘bomb’. e. A success (esp. in entertainment); also U.S., a failure. like a bomb and variants: with great speed; with considerable effectiveness or success. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > very swiftly as swift (also quick, fleet) as thought?c1225 like lightning1567 (as) quick as lightning1580 like wildfire1699 like stour1787 (as) quick as a wink1825 like smoke1832 quick as a streak1839 like sixty1848 (as) quick as thought1871 at a great lick1898 like a bat out of hell1921 like the clappers1948 like a bomb1954 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > there is much success [phrase] > with great success in a big way1840 like a bandit1943 like a bomb1954 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > that which is a failure fizzle1846 fiasco1855 frost1874 blue duck1889 wash-out1902 blowout1925 turkey1927 flopperoo1936 stiff1937 muck-up1942 bomb1954 fizzer1957 lead balloon1960 damp squib1963 bummer1967 downer1976 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > that which is successful success1667 good thing1764 go1780 out1843 winner1913 success story1925 socko1937 gangbuster1946 bomb1954 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > item in > type of item hit1811 star turn1885 sister act1893 showstopper1916 patter act1941 single act1952 bomb1954 stunt- 1954 Amer. Speech 29 99 Like a bomb,..very fast. 1961 New Yorker 28 Oct. 43/2 What had once been called a failure became a ‘bomb’. 1962 Listener 11 Oct. 581/2 Leslie Crowther, introducing The Black and White Minstrel Show..from the Victoria Palace, remarked, ‘We're going like a bomb here.’ 1963 The Beatles 5 Once, Paul M^cCartney and I played Reading as the Nurk Twins. Went down a bomb, I recall. 1967 A. Diment Dolly Dolly Spy ii. 15 His straight-backed ‘visitor's’ chair, which for pure discomfort would have gone down a bomb with the Gestapo. f. A large sum of money. slang. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > large sum pounda1225 ransom?a1300 fother14.. gob1542 mint1579 king's ransomc1590 abomination1604 coda1680 a pretty (also fine, fair, etc.) penny1710 plunk1767 big money1824 pot1856 big one?1863 a small fortune1874 four figures1893 poultice1902 parcel1903 bundle1905 pretty1909 real money1918 stack1919 packet1922 heavy sugar1926 motza1936 big bucks1941 bomb1958 wedge1977 megadollars1980 squillion1986 bank1995 1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights ii. 79 There are not many bent screws the reason being that many of them are to honest or to scared to do any trafficing but the ones that do make a bomb. 1963 M. Levinson Taxi! x. 122 Large original oil paintings..which, in cab-driver's language, looked as though they were ‘worth a bomb’. 1969 A. E. Lindop Sight Unseen xxiv. 202 Can I have that instead of the five pounds? I might flog it for a bomb in me old age. g. A (large) marijuana cigarette; = bomber n. 3a. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > marijuana or cannabis > cigarette weed1917 stick1918 spliff1929 weed1929 reefer1931 joint1935 muggler1935 ju-ju1940 mezzroll1944 panatela1946 bomber1952 charge1957 bomb1960 number1963 doobie1967 smoke1967 cheeba1971 Thai stick1976 blunt1988 bifter1989 1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Sept. 589/4 The Scene is written by a junkie with a bee for bombs... Mr. Cooper, that is to say, was once a dope addict. 1967 E. Wymark As Good as Gold xiv. 204 First they simply smoke marijuana... They refer to the smokes as sticks or bombs, depending on their size. 1968 ‘J. Hudson’ Case of Need iii. i. 173 Bombs... You know... Speed. Lifts. Jets. Bennies. †3. A mortar, a shell-gun. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > mortar potgun?1470 mortar1547 mortar-piece1570 pot-piecea1578 bomb1684 coehorn1705 royal1743 royal mortar1867 mortar gun1997 1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 95 The enemy..play'd on us with their Cannon and Bombs. †4. a. A small war-vessel carrying mortars for throwing bombs. Called more fully bomb-ketch n., bomb-galliot n., bomb-ship n., bomb-vessel n. at Compounds 1a, and bombard n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > bomb-vessel bombardier1686 bomb-ketch1693 bomb-vessel1693 palander1693 bomb-ship1695 bomb1704 bomb-galliot1715 bombard1799 bombardier-galliot1807 bombarder1866 galliot1867 1704 London Gaz. No. 4029/3 Portsmouth Bomb. 1704 London Gaz. No. 3992/3 Her Majesty's Ships the Mortar and Terror Bombs. 1747 J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) i. 21 Those who have the command of sloops, bombs, fireships. 1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 45 He proceeded with the Thunder bomb..to bombard the town. 1813 Examiner 18 Jan. 47/1 18 sloops—4 bombs. b. An old car (see also quot. 1953). Australian and New Zealand slang. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > old, worn-out crock1903 struggle-buggy1925 heap1926 crate1928 jalopy1929 clunker1930 junker1932 iron1935 fixer-upper1948 bomb1953 banger1962 hooptie1968 skedonk1970 gambo1971 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun] > old bomb1953 1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks iv. 106 Bomb, an old car or motor cycle. 1961 Coast to Coast 1959–60 120 Get out, buy yourself a car... Do as I did, start with a bomb and keep adding a bit and trading it in till you've got what you want. 1965 M. Shadbolt Among Cinders xviii. 163 The car..wasn't much more than an old bomb. 1967 F. Sargeson Hangover vii. 53 We had a job shoving her into the bomb. 5. A roundish mass of lava thrown out of a volcano. Chiefly in volcanic bomb. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > ejected volcanic material > [noun] > volcanic bomb bomb1780 breadcrust bomb1888 1780 W. Hamilton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 63 Others again burst into a thousand pieces soon after their emission from the crater: they might very properly be called volcanic bombs. 1798 R. Jameson Outl. Mineral. Shetland Islands 56 Any appearance of..what the Volcanists call volcanic bombs. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. Gloss. 83 Volcanic Bombs, volcanos throw out sometimes detached masses of melted lava, which, as they fall, assume rounded forms (like bomb-shells), and are often elongated into a pear shape. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xxiii. 589 In some parts rounded volcanic bombs, which must have assumed this form, when projected red-hot from the crater, lie strewed on the surface. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 193 Sometimes the masses of lava..fall as..volcanic bombs. 1956 W. Edwards in D. L. Linton Sheffield 8 Tuffs are especially well seen in the Ashaver anticline,..and are dark green, brown, and purple well-bedded basaltic ashes with ‘bombs’ of basalt, limestone, and chert. 1969 Nature 8 Nov. 557/2 Volcanic activity occurred at several places along this fracture and fresh bombs rest on the ice close to the edge of the chasm. Compounds C1. General attributive. See also bomb-ketch n., bomb-proof adj. and n., bombshell n. a. bomb battery n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > bombardment battery1548 cannonade1562 cannonading1637 bombarding1687 bomb battery1695 bombardment1702 cannon fire1725 bombard1807 shelling1860 hate1915 barrage1916 box barrage1916 creeping barrage1916 area bombardment1918 area shoot1919 shoot1941 stonk1944 1695 London Gaz. No. 3124/2 This day the Bomb-Battery was begun. bomb-bed n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > storage room or compartment > place for storing bombs bomb-bed1850 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 100 The beams which support the bomb-bed in bomb-vessels. bomb-cart n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > bomb-cart bomb-cart1712 1712 London Gaz. No. 4970/2 Two Bomb Carts..and five Pieces of Ordnance. 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 377/2 Bomb-carts, filled with necessaries for the camp, were likewise sent. bomb-chest n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine petard1566 powder minea1639 fougade1643 bomb-chest1704 caisson1704 globe of compression1771 torpedo1786 fougasse1832 stifler1836 landmine1875 observation mine1886 egg1917 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Bomb-chest, is a kind of chest, which being filled with Gunpowder and Bombs..is placed under Ground to blow it up into the Air, together with those that stand upon it. bomb-galliot n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > bomb-vessel bombardier1686 bomb-ketch1693 bomb-vessel1693 palander1693 bomb-ship1695 bomb1704 bomb-galliot1715 bombard1799 bombardier-galliot1807 bombarder1866 galliot1867 1715 London Gaz. No. 5301/2 Some Bomb Galliots. bomb-quay n. ΚΠ 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxix. 250 The entertainers landed at the bomb-keys. bomb-ship n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > bomb-vessel bombardier1686 bomb-ketch1693 bomb-vessel1693 palander1693 bomb-ship1695 bomb1704 bomb-galliot1715 bombard1799 bombardier-galliot1807 bombarder1866 galliot1867 1695 London Gaz. No. 3086/2 Having been to view the Bomb ships in the Maese. 1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 136 The bomb-ship and schooner gun-vessels made their escape. bomb-vessel n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > bomb-vessel bombardier1686 bomb-ketch1693 bomb-vessel1693 palander1693 bomb-ship1695 bomb1704 bomb-galliot1715 bombard1799 bombardier-galliot1807 bombarder1866 galliot1867 1693 London Gaz. No. 2893/4 Bomb vessels lately Launch'd. 1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 69 Bomb Vessels. b. bomb-battered adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc. bomb-battered1853 blitzed1941 bomb-pitted1943 bomb-damaged1945 bomb-shattered1945 atomized1946 war-damaged1946 1853 J. S. C. Abbott in Harper's New Monthly Mag. Mar. 456/1 Having fled from their bomb-battered and burning dwellings. c. Also in many obvious combinations relating to aerial bombs. bomb-aimer n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > aircrew with specific duties observer1870 strafer1915 air gunner1916 air bomber1918 gunner1918 rear gunner1918 bombardier1932 bomb-aimer1935 tail gunner1939 tail-end Charlie1941 arse-end Charlie1942 waist-gunner1942 spotter pilot1944 1935 Meccano Mag. Oct. 577/2 The telegraphist is also acting as bomb-aimer. bomb-aiming n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > aiming of bombs bomb-sighting1931 bomb-aiming1937 1937 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 41 423 A stable platform for bomb-aiming. 1942 W. Simpson One of our Pilots is Safe ii. 18 We were..given an extra gun—firing downwards and backwards out of the bomb-aiming hatch. bomb-carrier n. ΚΠ 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station vii. 109 The only standard bomb-carriers in service at this period were the single 16-lb bomb and the 20-lb gear for two Hale 20-lb bombs. bomb-carrying n. ΚΠ 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station vii. 109 Equipping all the machines with bomb-carrying and release gear. bomb-crater n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > made by bomb crater1839 crump-hole1914 bomb-crater1920 camouflet1941 1920 Blackwood's Mag. July 76/1 Ploughed up with bomb-craters. bomb-damage n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > from bombing, etc. radiation damage1935 bomb-damage1941 1941 Partisan Rev. Nov. 498 I can see no bomb damage anywhere, except for a few churches. 1942 Ann. Reg. 1941 328 Four galleries..being closed on account of bomb damage. bomb-dropper n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > bomber raider1908 bomber1917 night bomber1918 dart1925 bomb-dropper1928 flying boxcar1932 bombing plane1934 bomber aircraft1935 medium bomber1935 dive-bomber1937 heavy1943 nuisance raider1944 shuttle bomber1944 atomic bomber1945 interdictor1965 stealth1979 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station vii. 104 The last three machines were classified as ‘Gun Machines’ and ‘Bomb Droppers’. bomb-dropping n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs bomb-dropping1910 bombing1915 1910 R. Ferris How it Flies xvii. 372 There have been many contests by aviators in ‘bomb-dropping’. bomb-dump n. [dump n.⁴ 1c] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [noun] > place for storing weapons > dump for bombs bomb-dump1939 1939 R. Campbell Flowering Rifle vi. 148 Keep safe his bomb-dump while our patience lasts. 1941 Illustr. London News 198 728/2 Bombing up the 'planes is the work of the armourers, who also have charge of the vast station bomb-dump. bomb-load n. ΚΠ 1921 Aeronaut. Jrnl. Mar. 166 The bomb load of the standard..four-engined machines amounted to 3,000 kilograms. bomb-maker n. ΚΠ 1905 Westm. Gaz. 19 June 5/1 The bomb-makers..were inextricably trapped. bomb-raid n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid raid1908 bombing offensive1917 bombing raid1917 bomb-raid1917 bombing attack1942 prang1943 1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 259 A daylight bomb raid is seldom a complete failure. 1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 29 Bomb-raid damage repairs in London. bomb-release n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > bombs carried by aircraft > bomb release mechanism bomb-release1928 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station v. 87 Very little work had been done with bomb releases. 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station vii. 110 Bomb-release gears. 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xiii. 224 Bomb release-slips. bomb-thrower n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > one who lays or operates mines or bombs > [noun] mine master1598 petarder1611 petardier1632 miner1692 springer1860 explosionist1868 dynamitard1882 dynamitist1882 dynamiter1883 dynamiteur1883 bomb-thrower1891 bomber1915 car bomber1919 letter bomber1947 firebomber1957 plastiqueur1961 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Dec. 5/2 The bomb-thrower, who lost his life in attempting that of Mr. Russell Sage. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 24 The bomb-thrower seized the missile quickly,..threw the bomb, and jumped back under cover. bomb-throwing n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of mines and explosives > [noun] > use of bombs bombing1691 bomb-throwing1905 suicide bombing1940 clobbering1948 1905 Westm. Gaz. 13 May 7/2 The workmen [of St. Petersburg] practised shooting and bomb-throwing. 1908 Daily Chron. 14 Aug. 4/4 The attack from bomb-throwing airships is very little, if any, more alarming than from a gunboat. d. bomb-damaged adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc. bomb-battered1853 blitzed1941 bomb-pitted1943 bomb-damaged1945 bomb-shattered1945 atomized1946 war-damaged1946 1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 157 Bomb-damaged houses in the London area. 1954 R. Macaulay Last Lett. to Friend (1962) 150 It was one of the City churches very little bomb-damaged, I think. 1954 ‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom i. vi. 77 A row of bomb-damaged houses. bomb-pitted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc. bomb-battered1853 blitzed1941 bomb-pitted1943 bomb-damaged1945 bomb-shattered1945 atomized1946 war-damaged1946 1943 T. Horsley Find, Fix & Strike 15 Operating from bomb-pitted aerodromes. bomb-shattered adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc. bomb-battered1853 blitzed1941 bomb-pitted1943 bomb-damaged1945 bomb-shattered1945 atomized1946 war-damaged1946 1945 H. Read Coat of Many Colours lxvi. 319 The bomb-shattered ruins of human tenderness and faith. 1949 M. Laski Little Boy Lost iii. xvi. 209 The emptiness of the bomb-shattered square. C2. bomb alley n. Service slang an area repeatedly attacked by bombing. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > front or front line > area subjected to gunfire or bombing fire zone1873 beaten zone1918 bomb alley1942 1942 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 10 June–1 Sept. 263 The narrow stretch of water between the island of Pantellaria and Sicily, officially known as the Sicilian Channel, but called Bomb Alley by the Navy and Merchant Service. 1945 Ann. Reg. 1944 76 The inhabitants of the so-called ‘bomb alley’ had also suffered considerably. bomb bay n. a compartment in an aircraft for holding bombs. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > bombs carried by aircraft > bomb-rack bomb-rack1917 bomb bay1918 1918 Aeronaut. Insp. Directorate Data Bk. (Handley Page V/1500) 3 The bomb bay is rectangular, and built entirely of spruce. 1934 Flight 15 Feb. 156/1 Bombs are internally stowed in a bomb bay closed by doors controlled by the bomber. bomb calorimeter n. (see quot. 1928). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > measurement of heat > instrument > specific bomb1747 Joly's steam calorimeter1894 bomb calorimeter1902 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 444/1 The potential energy..is measured by the heat of combustion in the bomb calorimeter. 1928 A. B. Callow Food & Health 29 The apparatus used for this laboratory oxidation is a small calorimeter which is known as the bomb calorimeter, because the oxidation takes place inside a thick-walled vessel which in some ways resembles a bomb. bomb-disposal n. the removal and detonation of unexploded and delayed-action bombs; usually attributive, esp. in bomb-disposal squad. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > bombing party > bomb-disposal squad bomb-disposal squad1940 1940 War Illustr. 4 Oct. 338 The Bomb Disposal Sections of the Royal Engineers whose job it is to dig up and destroy the time-bombs. 1940 War Illustr. 6 Dec. 612 The bomb-disposal squads of the Royal Engineers..described..the removal of delayed-action bombs. bomb door n. usually in plural: the movable covering of a bomb bay. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > device to release bombs from aircraft > movable covering of bomb bay bomb door1939 1939 Meccano Mag. Mar. 150/3 Large bomb doors cover the bottom of the fuselage. bomb-happiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > shell-shock, etc. shell shock1915 combat fatigue1943 bomb-happiness1944 survivor syndrome1968 1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target iii. 29 Now, when ‘bomb-happiness’ and the ‘jitterbugs’ threatened to touch the troop with palsied fingers. bomb-happy adj. [happy adj. and n. Compounds 2] colloquial mentally affected by exposure to a bomb or shell explosion at close quarters; shell-shocked. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > shell-shock, etc. shell-shocked1915 flak-happy1938 bomb-happy1943 rock happy1943 sand-happy1943 bushed1952 1943 San Francisco Chron. 1 Dec. 2/2 A barrage so incessant..that many troops of the crack 65th Nazy Division were rendered ‘bomb happy’ and fell easy prisoners. 1944 A. Jacob Traveller's War iv. 68 I was, in fact, slightly ‘bomb happy’. bomb-lance n. a harpoon with an explosive in its head. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whaling equipment > [noun] > harpoon > types of gun-harpoon1867 bomb-lance1883 rocket bomb1883 toggle-iron1884 toggle-harpoon1888 stabbing harpoon1895 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 199 The bomb-lance, darting-bomb, and rocket-bomb. 1901 F. T. Bullen Sack of Shakings 18 He took..an extra supply of bomb-lances, in the use of which he was an acknowledged expert. 1917 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 590/1 This monster..was killed by a bomb-lance from a whale-boat. bomb line n. (see quot. 1944). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun] > limits for bombing within bomb line1943 1943 L. Cheshire Bomber Pilot i. 9 On the large map on the wall was a red line; they called it the bomblin [e] , and it was supposed to represent the area behind which we could [not] bomb. 1944 Times 17 Apr. 3/3 The ‘bomb line’—that is, the line ahead of the troops behind which aircraft supporting the ground forces should not drop their bombs. 1961 W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio ii. 23 We could not..pick up any feature we could recognise... We turned tail and flew disconsolately back over the bomb line. bomb-rack n. a rack (in an aircraft) for holding bombs. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > bombs carried by aircraft > bomb-rack bomb-rack1917 bomb bay1918 1917 Advis. Comm. Aeronaut., Rep. & Mem. No. 378 Tests were made up at the request of the Air Board, who supplied drawings of a bomb rack to carry two 112-lb. bombs. 1918 Times Engin. Suppl. 26 Apr. 88/1 The bomb-racks in the covered-in passage..are capable of holding five 25-pounder bombs. 1944 Times 23 May 4/2 The Spitfires..saw the German aircraft pass them at high speed with bomb-racks full. bomb run n. (also bombing run) the line of flight of bombing aircraft over the target. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > line of flight over target bombing run1941 bomb run1941 1941 Sci. Digest Nov. 53/1 The pilot controls the ‘bomb run’, which is the line of flight of the plane. 1944 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 12 Apr.–26 Sept. 30/2 The deliberate bomb run through the target flak itself. bomb sight n. (also bombing sight) a device for sighting the target in bombing from an aeroplane. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > bombs carried by aircraft > bomb sight bomb sight1917 bombing sight1920 Mickey1944 1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings vii. 176 Owing to the difficulty of correct aim, before the advent of modern bomb-sights, all the early raids were carried out from a low altitude. 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station v. 87 Of the available bomb sights, the most practical and successful were those invented by Lieutenant Scott, U.S.N., and Zeiss. bomb-sighting n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > aiming of bombs bomb-sighting1931 bomb-aiming1937 1931 Air Annual Brit. Empire 230 The platform is filled with navigation and bomb-sighting equipment for the observer's use. bomb-site n. ground on which buildings, etc., have been destroyed by aerial bombing. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > place of destruction sink1648 bomb-site1945 1945 Daily Express 23 May 3/3 (caption) British workmen from a bomb-site about 100 yards away. 1959 Times 8 Dec. 5/6 Many of the bomb-site parks in central London are seldom full. Draft additions 1993 American Football. A long, looping, forward pass. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres rush1857 punt-out1861 goal-kicking1871 safety1879 safety touchdown1879 scrimmage1880 rushing1882 safety touch1884 touchback1884 forward pass1890 run1890 blocking1891 signal1891 fake1893 onside kick1895 tandem-play1895 pass play1896 spiral1896 shift1901 end run1902 straight-arm1903 quarterback sneak1904 runback1905 roughing1906 Minnesota shift1910 quarterbacking1910 snap-back1910 pickoff1912 punt return1914 screen forward pass1915 screen pass1920 power play1921 sneak1921 passback1922 snap1922 defence1923 reverse1924 carry1927 lateral1927 stiff-arm1927 zone1927 zone defence1927 submarine charge1928 squib1929 block1931 pass rushing1933 safetying1933 trap play1933 end-around1934 straight-arming1934 trap1935 mousetrap1936 buttonhook1938 blitzing1940 hand-off1940 pitchout1946 slant1947 strike1947 draw play1948 shovel pass1948 bootleg1949 option1950 red dog1950 red-dogging1951 rollout1951 submarine1952 sleeper pass1954 draw1956 bomb1960 swing pass1960 pass rush1962 blitz1963 spearing1964 onsides kick1965 takeaway1967 quarterback sack1968 smash-mouth1968 veer1968 turn-over1969 bump-and-run1970 scramble1971 sack1972 nose tackle1975 nickel1979 pressure1981 1955 B. Oates Los Angeles Rams 51 That year Bob Waterfield and Elroy Hirsch had been the long-range bombers with, for example, a ninety-one yard touchdown in Chicago.] 1960 Compl. Guide Prof. Football 88 (caption) Ralph Gugliemi..threw four TD bombs in '59. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 23/8 The bomb carried from the Packer end zone to the Atlanta 44. 1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. c13/2 Shaw High quarterback Greg Shields stung Shaker Heights twice on long bombs to pace Shaw to its first Lake Erie League victory of the season, 14–7. 1984 J. Lawton All Amer. War Game ix. 113 A big bomb of a pass can illuminate the murkiest of games. Draft additions 1993 bomb factory n. colloquial a place where bombs are illegally manufactured or prepared, for use in terrorist activities. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > explosives > illegally bomb factory1975 1975 Facts on File 20 Dec. 952/3 Police said that the arrest of the four had been instrumental in uncovering a London ‘bomb factory’. 1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 2 Nov. 3/4 Madden had said he heard from a stallholder in Kingsland market that a bomb factory had been found in Albion Towers. 1986 Times 21 June 3/2 He had no idea the four people in the room were turning it into a bomb factory. Draft additions February 2005 bomb squad n. (a) a unit, usually a division of a police force or the armed forces, assigned to investigate the planting of (suspected) explosive devices and to neutralize them; (b) a terrorist group that plants explosive devices. ΚΠ 1910 Chicago Tribune 20 Sept. 1/5 Capt. Wood..organized a ‘bomb squad’ more than a year ago to search for the bomb thrower. 1920 Times 21 Sept. 10/4 Fischer came from Canada willingly in the company of two members of what is known as the New York ‘Bomb Squad’. 1992 Daily Mirror 3 Oct. 2/4 The lost blueprint is the second Palace security scandal revealed by the Mirror, following yesterday's alert on the book lashed as a ‘guide’ for an IRA bomb squad. 2004 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 12 June b3 A bomb squad ‘rendered the device safe’ and it was removed for investigation. Draft additions September 2013 Chemistry. A thick-walled, sealable metal container in which combustion or other reaction can take place; esp. = bomb calorimeter n. at Compounds 2.In early quots. apparently referring to the casing of a projectile bomb (sense 2a), used in an experiment.iron, pressure bomb: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > measurement of heat > instrument > specific bomb1747 Joly's steam calorimeter1894 bomb calorimeter1902 1747 B. Martin Philosophia Britannica I. 25 Let a Bomb of cast Iron six or eight Inches Diameter, and about one Inch thick, be fill'd with Water. 1838 Trans. Inst. Civil Engineers 2 38 A cast-iron bomb..filled with water and subjected to an intense frigorific operation. 1880 Science 4 Sept. 120/2 An apparatus for measuring the heat of combustion of gases by detonation, which consists essentially of a bomb suspended in a calorimeter. 1911 Pop. Mech. Aug. 361/2 (caption) Watching the rise in the temperature of water surrounding ‘bomb’ of a calorimeter in which one gram of dry, pulverized coal has been burned. 1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students x. 195 The reaction is not carried out in a test-tube immersed in the water of the calorimeter, but in a so-called ‘bomb’ of steel which is immersed in the water. 2012 D. W. Oxtoby et al. Princ. Mod. Chem. (ed. 7) xii. 532 The reaction is initiated by a heated wire inside the bomb. Draft additions December 2016 Surfing. A very large, powerful wave, esp. one that is much larger than others in a set. ΚΠ 1996 Surfer May 50/1 (caption) Donnie Solomon rides a bomb behind Kelly Slater and Ross Clarke-Jones. 2001 Adrenalin No. 9. 127/3 The Cortes Bank off the California coast, where Parsons rode a 60-foot bomb. 2015 C. Marzo & R. Yehling Just add Water x. 123 A left-hand bomb of up to twenty feet. Draft additions March 2017 An aerosol spray pesticide or similar large can of a fogging (fog v.¹ 7) compound used to kill indoor flying insects. Frequently with preceding modifying word indicating the type of insect. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > insecticide or pesticide acaricide1841 pyrethrum1876 benzene hexachloride1884 systemic1893 alphachloralose1894 pyrethrin1896 hexachlorethane1898 pesticide1933 bomb1944 bug juice1944 adulticide1945 miticide1946 chlordane1947 HCH1947 lindane1949 allethrin1950 Pybuthrin1951 isodrin1953 monosulfiram1953 mirex1962 naled1963 propoxur1964 methiocarb1966 carbofuran1968 aldicarb1969 pirimicarb1970 tickicide1971 methoprene1974 1944 Washington Post 16 Apr. ii. 2/7 The insect ‘bomb’ has become an integral part of field equipment and thus about 7,500,000 ‘bug bombs’ have been manufactured for military use. 1945 Sci. Monthly May p. vii (advt.) In his tent a soldier uses a bug bomb to destroy insect life—safeguarding health and increasing comfort in tropical jungles. 1996 Woman's Day (Sydney) 10 June 100/2 (advt.) Avoids the need to use harsh sprays, powders or flea bombs in summer. 2011 J. Eisenberg Bed Bug Survival Guide (Electronic ed.) 119 If you have a bed bug problem in one or two bedrooms, a bomb or fogger will spread it to the rest of your place. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). bombv. Brit. /bɒm/, U.S. /bɑm/ Etymology: < bomb n. 1. transitive. a. To fire bombs at; to bombard. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bombard ding1548 to lay battery to1548 cannon1567 thunder1590 cannonade1637 bombard1686 bomb1694 shell1827 plonk1874 plaster1914 bump1915 labour1915 water1915 barragea1917 paste1942 stonk1944 1694 Philos. Trans. 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 984 The Town could never be Bomb'd by Land. a1704 C. Sedley Poems in Wks. (1722) I. 78 While you Bomb Towns in France. 1797 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. cxlvi The intention of bombing us still goes on. b. To attack with an explosive bomb placed or thrown for the purpose of destruction; (of aircraft) to attack with bombs from the air; to drop a bomb or bombs upon. So to bomb one's way: to advance by bombing; to bomb out: to clear by bombing; esp. in past participle (see bombed out at bombed adj.² 1). Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (intransitive)] > drop bomb > advance by bombing to bomb one's way1909 society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > drop (bombs) > bomb bomb1909 prang1942 pickle1944 1909 Daily Chron. 25 Feb. 1/6 Attempts had been made..to bomb trains known to contain Europeans. 1915 Draconian Apr. 1683/1 They bombed us periodically during the day and night. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 174 He himself had known a line bombed out. a1917 E. A. Mackintosh War, the Liberator (1918) 97 When we're bombing our way up the streets of Berlin. a1917 E. A. Mackintosh War, the Liberator (1918) 133 He turned to bomb the big dug-out. 1969 Daily Tel. 17 Dec. 3/8 Hundreds of pigeons congregated in the area, ruining washing and ‘bombing’ children. Thesaurus » Categories » 2. To throw with violence, let fly. dialect. 3. to bomb up: to load (aircraft) with bombs. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > use aircraft weapons or equipment [verb (transitive)] > load (aircraft) with bombs to bomb up1939 1939 Flight 28 Sept. (caption) ‘Bombing up’ a squadron of Ju 87s at Kitzingen-on-Main aerodrome. 1940 Illustr. London News 197 308/1 The order has been given to ‘bomb up’ this hardy squadron of ‘Whitley’ bombers. 1943 L. Cheshire Bomber Pilot i. 9 When we landed, the armourers were standing by to bomb up. 4. intransitive. To fail. Also const. out. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] withsitc1330 fail1340 defaulta1382 errc1430 to fall (also go) by the wayside1526 misthrive1567 miss1599 to come bad, or no, speedc1600 shrink1608 abortivea1670 maroon1717 to flash in the pan1792 skunk1831 to go to the dickens1833 to miss fire1838 to fall flat1841 fizzle1847 to lose out1858 to fall down1873 to crap out1891 flivver1912 flop1919 skid1920 to lay an egg1929 to blow out1939 to strike out1946 bomb1963 to come (also have) a buster1968 1963 Amer. Speech 38 168 To fail to pass an examination: flunk.., flag, blow, bomb. 1966 Listener 9 June 838/3 When a machine goes wrong it ‘bombs out’ and has to be ‘debugged’. 1968 TV Times (Austral.) 10 Apr. 11/4 Everyone had expected it to be [good], so when it bombed it was a shock. 5. transitive. To drug or dope (a racehorse). Australian slang. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > drug [verb (transitive)] narcotize1526 potion1611 druga1730 hocus1831 dope1889 slug1925 snow1927 bomb1950 hit1953 to hop up1968 1950 Austral. Police Jrnl. Apr. 110 To bomb, to dope. 1959 S. J. Baker Drum 92 Bomb v., to dope a racehorse. 6. intransitive. To move or travel quickly. With adverb (phr.) slang. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > speedily rakeOE rekec1275 raikc1390 richc1400 freck1513 to hie it1620 whidc1730 scoot1758 spank1807 kilt1816 nip1825 slip1864 breeze1907 bomb1966 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)] lakeOE flyOE runOE scour13.. jace1393 hie1398 spina1400 fleetc1400 glentc1400 stripc1400 suea1450 carryc1450 speed1488 scud1532 streek1598 winga1616 to clip it1616 hackney1617 swifta1618 whirryc1630 dust1673 whew1684 race1702 stroke1735 cut1797 spank1807 skid1815 speela1818 crack1824 skimmer1824 slap1827 clip1832 skeet1838 marvel1841 lick1850 travel1850 rush1852 zip1852 sail1876 rabbit1887 move1906 high-tail1908 to ball the jack1914 buzz1914 shift1922 giddap1938 burn1942 hoosh1943 bomb1966 shred1977 1966 R. Thorp Detective iv. 64 When my parents thought I was at Gloria's house..we were out bombing around town. 1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning xi. 93 At weekends, they bombed up and down the coastline in their hotrods. 1974 H. Evans et al. We learned to Ski 31 Nothing is more demoralizing for a beginner than having all the skiers in the resort bombing past him. 1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 97/2 Social life revolves around your clique..and dinner at each other's houses, weekends bombing off somewhere together in your young Sloane motors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1588v.1694
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