bomb

adj

Etymology: From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.

1. Great, awesome.

   “Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!”

noun

1. The atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack.

   “Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.”

phrase

1. Initialism of bottom of the motherfucking barrel (indicating that something or someone is egregiously unfavorable).

verb

Etymology: From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.

1. To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.

   “2000, Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research, Volumes 32-33, page 65, 15 May: US jets bombed air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally bombing civilian targets. (AP)”

   “Italy had bombed cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.”

2. To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.

   “School days have been missed or cut short many times to accommodate soccer travel through the years, but this return felt different. Photos posted on his social media documenting the experience were seen by classmates, many of whom bombed him with questions about his future in the sport.”

3. To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
4. To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
5. To move at high speed.

   “I was bombing down the road on my motorbike.”

6. To make oneself drunk.

   “The calendar was selling Moctezuma beer, so I had one of them in her honor while Murray bombed himself with the mezcal.”

   “TED: The champagne you ordered, sir. MAN: No time for this. Leave it on ice. WIFE: But I want some now... MAN: There'll be plenty for you at the party, baby, you can bomb yourself all you want at the party.”

7. To cover an area in many graffiti tags.

   “It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.”

8. To fail dismally.

   “I totally bombed that exam.”

   “The nondiscrimination measures bombed at the polls, losing 18 percent to 82 percent. One gay activist in the city told GCN, "We got whupped."”

9. To crash.

   “When things weren't going Alison's way at work — some editor wanted something changed or her computer bombed again — she'd cuss and yell at whoever happened to be in the way.”

10. To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
11. To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

    “What over-charged piece of melancholie / Is this, breakes in betweene my wishes thus, / With bombing sighs?”

12. Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”).