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bomb
verb- to place graffiti with an emphasis on quantity, not quality US, 2000
- I did my first car in less than an hour. I was bombing. — Craig Castleman, Getting Up, p. 5, 1982
- What is a young man from the Hague doing bombing the one line in the 145th Street tunnel with Bode nudes? — Henry Chalfant, Spraycan Art, p. 7, 1987
- [A]erosol artists find a place to bomb in peace[.] — The Source, April 2000
- When I started off I was like that-bombing everything, windows, whatever, you name it. But what is the point? Two weeks from now 8Cultural Identity and Identity Performance among Latin American Youths in Toronto, p. 122, 2001
- “Bombing,” trying to put your name up in as many challenging and highly visible places as possible, was how a graffiti writer maintained his reputation among peers. — Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), p. L1, 29 July 2001
- Graffiti artists don’t work. They bomb. And graffiti artist Banksy is one of the most explosive in the graf-writing squadron. — The Face, p. 146, June 2001
- to swallow a quantity of a powdered drug and its cigarette-paper wrapping UK
- Christ, ee bombed abaht a gram av crystal meth yesterday, ee’l be aht av it fa days[.] — Niall Griffiths, Grits, p. 51, 2000
- in horse-racing, to dope a horse AUSTRALIA
- — Sydney J. Baker, Australia Speaks, 1953
- to run or drive at speed UK
- [Y]ou’re bombing down the road. — Paul E Willis, Profane Culture, p. 73, 1978
- in mountain biking, to travel fast downhill US
- — William Nealy, Mountain Bike!, p. 160, 1992
- to train intensely, alternating heavy weights with light weights US
- — American Speech, p. 198, Fall 1984: ‘The language of bodybuilding’
- in tiddlywinks, to play a wink at a pile of winks with destructive intent UK
- — C. W. Edwards, Glossary, 1980
- to fail dramatically; to flop US, 1958
- Originally theatrical.
- “They bomb and I serve their time,” was Lenny’s view of the situation. — Albert Goldman, Freak Show, p. 211, 1968
- “Are you saying we’re the Dambusters of the movie world?” [...] “Your films always bomb and your cheques always bounce.” — Stewart Home, Sex Kick [britpulp], p. 245, 1999
- in computing, to cease to function completely and suddenly US
- Don’t run Empire with less than 32K stack, it’ll bomb. — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 73, 1991
▶ get bombed
to be overcome by a wave while surfing US- — Duke Kahanamoku with Joe Brennan, Duke Kahanamoku’s World of Surfing, p. 172, 1965
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