bombed
Americanadjective
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completely intoxicated; drunk.
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completely under the influence of drugs; high.
adjective
Usage
What does bombed mean? Bombed is a slang adjective that means extremely drunk or high on drugs or both. Bombed is just one of the many slang synonyms for intoxicated that involve a sense of destruction, including destroyed, blitzed, hammered, smashed, wasted, and trashed. Other synonyms include sloshed, tanked, and plastered. Such words often imply that a person is intoxicated beyond a point of being able to function in even the most basic ways. Someone who’s described as bombed probably can’t even walk or talk properly. In many cases, a person who’s bombed is intoxicated to the point of blacking out—losing consciousness and probably losing their memory of what happened when they were intoxicated. Bombed is often used in the phrases bombed out of one’s mind and bombed out of one’s skull, as in The guy was bombed out of his mind on PCP and ranting and raving at everyone. Example: He got so bombed that he couldn’t remember anything that happened before he woke up in his car, which he had crashed into a tree.
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Example Sentences
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In 2006, she memorably performed as a kids’ birthday party entertainer—and bombed.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
In Paktia, an official said jets had bombed the Afghan Armed Forces' 203 Mansouri Corps, which is controlled by the Taliban, without providing any information on casualties.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
By contrast, gas stations are functioning normally in Ukraine because of fuel imports from Europe—even though Ukraine’s own refineries were heavily bombed as far back as 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
They also came after Israel bombed the disused Abu Duhur airbase in the country's northwest earlier in the week, claiming it wanted to avert Turkish troops deploying to the facility.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
And unlike Dad’s shows, where enthusiastic fans jumped the stage and then dive- bombed into the crowd, there was always a wall between the audience and me.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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