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

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

Derived forms: bombs, bombing, bombed

See also: bomber, bombing, bomblet

Type of: arms, assail, attack, belt along, bucket along, bust, calorimeter, cannonball along, explosive device, fizzle, flop, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurry, implements of war, money, munition, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it, travel rapidly, weaponry, weapons system, zip

Encyclopedia: Bomb Bomb, ground, 6 lb