bombed

Related to bombed: bombed out

bomb

1. adjective, slang Excellent; extremely entertaining; of very high quality. (Sometimes used as "the bomb.") That steak I had at dinner was bomb! I'm not usually a fan of action films, but that one was the bomb!
2. verb To fail spectacularly or to a great degree. Despite all the media hype, the major summer blockbuster bombed on its opening weekend.

bomb around

1. To move around (some place) very quickly and recklessly. I was afraid someone was going to get hurt from the way the kids kept bombing around the house. There was little else to do in such a rural town besides bomb around in our cars.
2. To travel around (some place) very quickly. We spent the summer bombing around Europe on motorcycles.
See also: around, bomb

bomb out (of something)

To fail spectacularly or to a great degree. Despite all the media hype, the major summer blockbuster really bombed out. He graduated at the top of his class, but his brother bombed out of college in just one semester.
See also: bomb, out

bomb out at (something)

To be eliminated from some competitive event due to a very poor performance. After bombing out at the 2001 Junior Nationals, I never really felt motivated to play table tennis at a competitive level again.
See also: bomb, out

bomb out on (something)

1. To fail or do very poorly at something, especially an exam. I felt sure that I had bombed out on the test, so I was shocked to learn I had gotten a B+.
2. To quit, abandon, or choose not to go through with something. I bombed out on the horseback riding after hearing about Sarah's accident. Tom keeps bombing out on our plans.
See also: bomb, on, out

bomb through (something)

1. To release bombs that must travel through something else before exploding. Bomb through the leaves to the base down below!
2. To use bombs to gain access to something. They'll bomb through the wall to get in here if they have to.
3. To have rapid success in some area. Can you believe that he's bombed through all those AP courses and he's only a junior?
4. To proceed quickly and forcefully through some thing or area. The boys bombed through the house in pursuit of snacks.
See also: bomb, through

bombed

slang Intoxicated. Do you remember last night at all? You were totally bombed by the time I got to the bar.

bombed out

Destroyed by explosives. Rebuilding hasn't begun in that neighborhood yet—it's still all bombed out from the siege.
See also: bombed, out

photobomb

slang To surprise someone (intentionally or unintentionally) by unexpectedly appearing in a photo they have taken or are trying to take. Kevin, quit photobombing us! We just want to take one nice picture! Ugh, the guy in front of us must have moved because he ended up totally photobombing us.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bomb

1. n. a bad performance or an inherently bad show. They tried as hard as they could, but the thing was a bomb from Act One on.
2. in. to fail. My first try bombed, but things got better.
3. Go to bomb(shell).

bomb

verb
See bomb out

bombed (out)

mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. (Possibly from embalmed.) How can I drive when I’m bombed out?
See also: bombed, out

bombed

verb
See bombed out

bomb

verb
See bombshell
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • sweet
  • sweeter
  • SBD
  • a little
  • gonzo
  • preppie
  • preppy
  • everything is copacetic
  • bulletproof
  • spastic
References in periodicals archive
"I couldn't begin to tell you how many times I was bombed and shelled."
Women veterans honored for their service
Surveys conducted after the war concluded that German factories increased their output despite being bombed. (Next time you're in a plane at 30,000 feet, try to pick out a building on the ground and imagine the technical difficulty of releasing a bomb so that it falls through miles of space--buffeted by unpredictable winds; propelled by the momentum of the plane's forward motion--and hits that building alone.)
The case against the Air Force
Three months later, the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. According to an FBI report, Murad, who was then in custody in New York, told jailers immediately after the bombing that it was the work of his co-conspirator Ramzi Yousef's "liberation army."
WTC, OKC, 9-11 terror connections.
planes bombed Red Cross warehouses, and a Red Cross spokesman said: "Now we've got 55,000 people without that food or blankets, with nothing at all."
A just cause, not a just war. (It Seems to Me)
La Scala had been bombed. The "dogface" (as infantrymen used to be called) attended the opera en plein air with a "date," with a woman old enough to be his mother, whose daughter might have been his sister.
Remembering 1945
Twenty-one four-engine B-29s bombed through the rising dust to complete the destruction.
The door SDI won't shut