1. An explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
   "The police evacuated the area after discovering a bomb"
    
2. [informal] An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
   "the first experiment was a real bomb";
   - turkey [informal], dud, flop [informal], clunker [N. Amer, informal]
    
3. [Brit, informal] A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
   "she made a bomb selling real estate";
   - pile [informal], bundle [informal], big bucks [informal], megabucks [informal], big money [informal], mint [informal]
    
4. Strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion
   "The scientist used a bomb calorimeter to determine the energy content of the fuel";
   - bomb calorimeter

1. Throw bombs at or attack with bombs
   "The Americans bombed Dresden";
   - bombard
    
2. [informal] Be unsuccessful in a test, get lower than the passing grade
   "She studied hard but bombed nevertheless";
   - fail, flunk [N. Amer, informal]
    
3. [Brit, informal] Move quickly and violently
   "The car bombed down the street";
   - tear [informal], shoot, shoot down, charge, buck, scream [informal]
    
4. [informal] Fail badly
   "How many contracting businesses will bomb this year?";
   - tank [N. Amer, informal], crash and burn [informal]

Sounds like: bombe

Derived forms: bombed, bombing, bombs

Type of: arms, assail, attack, barrel [informal], belt [informal], belt along [informal], bucket [informal], bucket along [informal], bust [informal], calorimeter, clinker [N. Amer, informal], clunker [N. Amer, informal], dud, epic fail [informal], explosive device, fail, fizzle, flop [informal], hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurry, implements of war, money, munition, neglect, pelt [informal], pelt along [informal], race, rocket [informal], rush, rush along, speed, step on it [informal], travel rapidly, washout, weaponry, weapons system, whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], wing [informal], zip [informal], zoom, zoom along [informal]

Encyclopedia: Bomb, Medium Capacity, 22,000 lb