Word Finder - bombs

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An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.

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A failure; an unpopular commercial product.

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box office bomb

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A large amount of money.

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cost a bomb

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• fortune
• packet
• pretty penny

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(social) Something highly effective or attractive.

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A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.

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A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.

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A great booming noise; a hollow sound.

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A woman’s breast.

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A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.

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A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.

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An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.

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• cannonball

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To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.

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To fail dismally.

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To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.

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To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

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To cover an area in many graffiti tags.

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To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.

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To make oneself drunk.

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(especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed.

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I was bombing down the road on my motorbike.

When driving in one of the central streets of St Petersburg, near the Winter Palace, he was mortally wounded by the explosion of some small bombs and died a few hours afterwards.

These concessions allayed the prevailing unrest for a time, but the Royalist and Nationalist parties continued secretly to intrigue against one another, and in February 1908, while the shah was driving in Teheran, two bombs were exploded under his motor-car.

At first the noise of the falling bombs and shells only aroused curiosity.

A revival of Irredentism in connection with the execution of an Austrian deserter named Oberdank, who after escaping into Italy endeavoured to return to Austria with explosive bombs in his possession, and the cordial references to France made by Depretis at Stradella (8th October 1882), prevented the French government from suspecting the existence of the alliance, or from ceasing to strive after a Franco-Italian understanding.

The substance known as moldavite, often regarded as an obsidian, and the so-called obsidian bombs, or obsidianites, are described under MOLDAVITE.

On the evening of i4th January 1858, while the emperor, accompanied by the empress, was driving to the opera, these men threw some bombs under his carriage.

This horrible outrage naturally created indignation in France, and it unfortunately became plain that the conspiracy had been hatched in England, and that the bombs had been manufactured in Birmingham.

The use of cluster bombs seems morally dubious.

Programs like "Food Not Bombs" do not express empathy, they express pity.

Smart bombs were used during the Gulf War with pinpoint accuracy they hit their target.

They had verified that they had destroyed bombs containing anthrax in 1991 by excavating the destruction site.

At the height of these attacks, 100,000 incendiary bombs were dropped on the City of London in one night.

There was no chaos, riots, dirty bombs, clashes.

Iran's several nuclear bombs can inflict more damage on America than the World War II.

Between 2004 and 2005 the number of car and roadside bombs doubled, and suicide bombs trebled.

The footage also showed a Warrior tank being hit by home-made gasoline bombs hurled by people in the crowd.

Cluster bombs were used by NATO forces during the bombing campaign.

They told of the planes high up in the sky dropping cluster bombs, tearing people to bits.

In that attack NATO forces used cluster bombs that caused horrible injuries.

Thu 16th Nov 2006 The EU must put its weight behind moves to ban cluster bombs according to Liberal Democrat MEP Liz Lynne.

The presence of unexploded cluster bombs is a particular hazard for children.

Students will basically learn; how to drop bombs, strafe targets and the basics of air-to-air combat.

If you have played RS3 then you'll know exactly what to expect -- a lot of rescuing hostages and disarming highly conspicuous bombs.

Gnjilane was hit with two very powerful missiles air cluster bombs banned by international convention.

Alternatively, explosions create cavities, for example, as bombs excavate bomb craters.

Bombs and restrictions have made Iraq poor, leaving the country denuded, bereft of infrastructure and economically crippled.

March Multiple bombs were simultaneously detonated on packed commuter trains in Madrid killing nearly 200 people and injuring nearly 2000.

Not even the German bombs could inflict more devastation on the capital of Ulster in the last war.

Most terrorist bombs are improvised and so are known as improvised explosive devices or IEDs.

They lost eighteen of their aircraft and the raid broke up in utter disarray although a few bombs did fall on land.

When coming down you can collect more rings and chaos emeralds, but beware of the bombs!

Ten bombs exploded on trains in Madrid on 11 March 2004.

Often these bombs contained hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of pounds of home-made explosives.

All known sites where bombs landed have been charted and interviews with surviving eyewitnesses are included.

A special electric proximity fuse which was designed for these bombs.

A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, nuclear bombs, the works.

The Russians - without gasoline bombs or anti-tank grenades - let it be.

Some men carried hand grenades or bombs for trench mortars.

Can you imagine if bombs began to fall on Washington, D.C., and to destroy the high-rises of money markets of New York?

The third attached from the South using machine guns but no bombs.

Sub-Lieutenant Babington had experimented with the dismantling of all types of bombs and had worked on the first suspended parachute magnetic mines.

In a new Iraq war, about 80% of bombs dropped would probably be smart munitions.

Helen has also narrated numerous documentaries including the RTS award winning The Night the Bombs Went Off.

Labs where bombs are manufactured are located in civilian neighborhoods.

When cluster bombs have come up on the major network newscasts, little background information has been provided.

After the USA dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Japan surrendered.

These include 110 B61 nuclear bombs based at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk 3.

That said, it fair bombs along - until to my mind, it all became a rather odious piece of literature.

The companies have were several pipe bombs when thursday's press etienne fights in.

By this the strategists usually seem to mean using special forces or satellite-guided bombs or pilotless reconnaissance planes.