bomb
noun
[ bɒm ]
• a container filled with explosive or incendiary material, designed to explode on impact or when detonated by a timing, proximity, or remote-control device.
• "a bomb attack"
• a lump of lava thrown out by an erupting volcano.
• a large sum of money.
• "that silk must have cost a bomb"
Similar:
a fortune,
a small fortune,
a king's ransom,
a huge amount,
a vast sum,
a large sum of money,
a lot,
millions,
billions,
a packet,
a mint,
a bundle,
a pile,
a wad,
a pretty penny,
an arm and a leg,
a tidy sum,
a killing,
loadsamoney,
shedloads,
silly money,
big bucks,
big money,
gazillions,
big bickies,
• a film, play, or other event that fails badly.
• "that bomb of an old movie"
• an outstandingly good person or thing.
• "the site would really be da bomb if its content were updated more frequently"
• a long forward pass or hit in a ball game.
• "a two-run bomb"
• a cannabis cigarette.
bomb
verb
• attack (a place or object) with a bomb or bombs.
• "they bombed the city at dawn"
Similar:
bombard,
drop bombs on,
explode,
blast,
shell,
torpedo,
blitz,
strafe,
pound,
attack,
assault,
raid,
blow up,
blow to bits,
blow sky-high,
destroy,
wipe out,
level,
raze (to the ground),
demolish,
flatten,
topple,
wreck,
devastate,
pulverize,
obliterate,
ravage,
smash,
cannonade,
• move very quickly.
• "we were bombing down the motorway at breakneck speed"
Similar:
speed,
hurry,
race,
run,
sprint,
dash,
bolt,
dart,
rush,
hasten,
hurtle,
career,
streak,
shoot,
whizz,
zoom,
go like lightning,
go hell for leather,
spank along,
bowl along,
rattle along,
whirl,
whoosh,
buzz,
swoop,
flash,
blast,
charge,
stampede,
gallop,
sweep,
hare,
fly,
wing,
scurry,
scud,
scutter,
scramble,
belt,
pelt,
tear,
hotfoot it,
zap,
zip,
whip,
scoot,
scorch,
burn rubber,
go like a bat out of hell,
bucket,
shift,
put one's foot down,
go like the clappers,
leg it,
wheech,
clip,
boogie,
hightail,
barrel,
lay rubber,
get the lead out,
fleet,
post,
hie,
drive,
drag/tear/haul ass,
• (of a film, play, or other event) fail badly.
• "it just became another big-budget film that bombed"
Similar:
fail,
be unsuccessful,
not succeed,
lack success,
fall through,
fall flat,
break down,
abort,
miscarry,
be defeated,
suffer defeat,
be in vain,
be frustrated,
collapse,
founder,
misfire,
backfire,
not come up to scratch,
meet with disaster,
come to grief,
come to nothing,
come to naught,
miss the mark,
run aground,
go astray,
flop,
fizzle out,
flatline,
come a cropper,
bite the dust,
blow up in someone's face,
go down like a lead balloon,
Origin:
late 17th century: from French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin.
