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bomb
noun- a great deal of money UK
- There are not many bent screws the reason being that most of them are to[o] honest or scared to do any traffic[k]ing, but the ones that do make a bomb. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 64, 1958
- [He] had made a bomb out of most of them[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 30, 1962
- Now that you mention it, I don’t know why I haven’t sold this shirt. It’s probably worth a bomb. — Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March 2003
- a marijuana cigarette, especially a large one US, 1951
- By the way, boy, I am of course indulging in a perfect orgy of Miss Green & can hardly see straight right at this minute, whoo! 3 bombs a day. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal and Carolyn Cassady, p. 358, 10 May 1952
- I paid 75 cents a stick, or a dollar for a bomb. A bomb is about as big as a Pall Mall and as fat as a Pall Mall. Like a regular cigarette. — Jeremy Larner and Rlaph Tetterteller, The Addict in the Street, p. 33, 1964
- When my buddy told me, we smoked around five bombs[.] — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 133, 1964
- — Mr., p. 8, April 1966: “The hippie’s lexicon”
- [T]ake a head of this Skunk / Twist up a big bomb of this serious dope / Smoke it down to the dub or roach tip[.] — Tone Loc, Cheeba Cheeba, 1989
- high potency, relatively pure heroin US, 1960
- “You know,” Curtis began, “if you say the stuff will take a five, then I put a four on it. That way, I always have the bomb.” — Donald Goines, Cry Revenge, p. 107, 1974
- crack cocaine US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- potent heroin US, 1969
- Lee here says he knows where to cop the bomb at. — Donald Goines, Dopefiend, p. 104, 1971
- a dose of sedative, especially one administered to dope a racehorse; a sedative pill AUSTRALIA, 1950
- The doctor gave me these bombs that kept me asleep nearly twenty-four hours a day. — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 136, 1992
- in a horse race, a winning horse that ran with very high odds US, 2002
- a forceful blow with the fist US
- From Challenge Jake La Motta’s corner, he heard the entreaties of La Motta’s handlers above the buzz of 22,183 spectators: “’At’s it, Jackson. ’Atta go, Jackson ... put the bomb in.” — Time, p. 53, 27 June 1949
- Johnny Summerlin planned today to “stay out of the way of the bombs” and let youth carry him to victory tonight. — San Francisco News, p. 27, 20 June 1956
- Moore moved quickly and threw another overhand bomb flush to the chin. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 39, 9 April 1961
- Rush Bomb Decks Johnson [Headline] — San Francisco Examiner, p. 47, 22 February 1967
- in tiddlywinks, a long-distance shot US
- — Verbatim, p. 525, December 1977
- a skateboarding manoeuvre in which the rider crouches and holds the sides of the board as the board leaves the ground US
- — Laura Torbet, The Complete Book of Skateboarding, p. 105, 1976
- a fast car US, 1953
Teen slang. - — American Weekly, p. 2, 14 August 1955
- a dilapidated motor vehicle AUSTRALIA, 1950
- It’s a wonder you haven’t got a defect notice for that old bomb of yours. — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 44, 1969
- Good lord. Is that your bomb outside? — Barry Oakley, A Salute to the Great McCarthy, p. 154, 1970
- — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 62, 1971
- — Peter Corris, Make Me Rich, p. 152, 1985
- an improvised water-heating device in prison NEW ZEALAND
- Every night Junk used to pull out his water-boiling gadget, called a tea bomb, and make up a brew of illegal tea or Milo. — Greg Newbold, The Big Huey, p. 77, 1982
- a dismal failure, especially in show business US, 1952
- The 10 biggest bombs [Headline] — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, Sunday Scene, p. 12, 13 January 1974
- The title of the book was How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, and, oddly enough, it was a bomb. — Mort Sahl, Heartland, p. 25, 1976
- an unexpected bass drum accent US
- He taught me how to turn on what the kids now call “dropping bombs.” — Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin to Ya, p. 289, 1955
- He [Kenny Clarke] uses his bass drum, but only to “drop an occasional bomb,” that is, he “boots” the soloist forward with an infrequent and unerringly timed explosion. — Hugh Panassie and Madeline Gautier, Guide to Jazz, p. 41, 1956
- Hassan dropped bombs, flailed tom-toms, rapped the snare, stirred his cymbals. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 32, 1961
▶ go like a bomb; go down a bomb
to be very successful and exciting UK- Seeing the world and brushing up my Arabic [...] Oh, it all went like a bomb. — Mary Stewart, The Gabriel Hounds, 1967
▶ make a bomb
to become rich, to make a large profit UK
From BOMB— Frank Norman, Bang to Rights, 1958 They worked hard, played hard, made a bomb. — The Observer, 14 July 2002▶ the bomb.com; the bomb dot com
the epitome of excellence US- there was one of the front of a silver r1, and in the headlight was a naked chic .. the pic, I believe, may have been black and white .. if anyone can send me the link to it .. you’ll be the bomb.com — Yambag69, r1-forum.com, 30 September 2002
- “Those jeans are the bomb.com!” — Connie Eble, Campus Slang: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, p. 2, Fall 2009
▶ the bomb; da bomb
the very best, something that is very good US- The crescent was the bomb. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 13, 1973
- Smoking a spliff of high-octaine chronic (street talk for pot) in the back room, he explains his bond to Dre. “He’s the bomb,” says Snoop. — People, p. 77, 23 May 1994
- It’s the bomb! — Clueless, 1995
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, Fall 1995
- I just did a movie about teen moeling with Todd and Griffin Tyler. It’s the bomb. — Francesca Lia Block, I Was a Teenage Fairy, p. 72, 1998
- Yeah, I’m not too big a fan either. Though Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms. — Kevin Smith, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, p. 19, 2001
- [Fred Durst] is, after all, the man who appeared in infamous rock porn vid Backstage Sluts [...] opening a tired-looking groupie’s labia and declaring it “the bomb”. — Loaded, p. 63, June 2003
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