My old building has no bomb shelter, so we sat under the stairs.
Which was the plane that carried the bomb over Hiroshima in 1945.
There Asiri is undoubtedly training a new generation of bomb makers.
Had Abdaly succeeded in getting his bomb into the mall, there would have been carnage.
There are many countries to whom Iran owes a blood debt, many countries that would regard an Iranian bomb as a deadly threat.
These accounts, and a demand for bomb vessels to assist the Swedish flotilla, were sent to the Admiralty.
In the year 1905 the Governor of Idaho was killed by a bomb as he was leaving his house.
"He has lighted the fuse of the bomb," she said to him excitedly.
An anarchist threw a bomb at the equipage of a king, and missed him.
One of these shelters will explode the shell or bomb, and the other receive the burst.
1580s, from French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus "a deep, hollow noise; a buzzing or booming sound," from Greek bombos "deep and hollow sound," echoic. Originally of mortar shells, etc.; modern sense of "explosive device placed by hand or dropped from airplane" is 1909. Meaning "old car" is from 1953. Meaning "success" is from 1954 (late 1990s slang the bomb "the best" is probably a fresh formation); opposite sense of "a failure" is from 1963. The bomb "atomic bomb" is from 1945.
1680s, from bomb (n.). Meaning "to fail" attested from 1963. Related: Bombed; bombing. Slang bombed "drunk" is attested by 1956.
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Related Terms
drop bombs, dumb bomb, stink bomb
[in the sense of failure, perhaps fr the outdated expression make a baum of it, ''fail'']
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