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bomber noun- a graffiti artist US, 1997
- An enterprising bomber could take King of Cleveland by walking the tracks one night. — William Upski Wimsatt, Bomb the Suburbs, p. 43, 1994
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 140, 1997
- These guys were bombers that would do the fancy stuff only when time permitted. — Stephen Power, The Art of Getting Over, p. 38, 1999
- [Pat DeLillo] created a safe haven for the same young bombers he once pursued. — The Source, p. 86, March 2002
- an extra large, thick or potent marijuana cigarette US
Named as an allusion to size and shape. - I was only carrying the bombers. The bombers are big. They’re just like regular cigarettes, the same size[.] — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 3, 1949
- Gregor proceeded to roll the biggest bomber anybody ever saw. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road (The Original Scroll), p. 383, 1951
- Satchmo making a roach of a bomber joint in two mighty drags. — Neal Cassady, Neal Cassady Collected Letters 1944–1967, p. 299, 20 June 1951: Letter to Jack Kerouac
- I felt its size. It was king-sized, a bomber. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 58, 1967
- — Current Slang, p. 11, Fall 1968
- I’m gonna roll you up a bomber. — Iceberg Slim ‘Robert Beck’, Pimp, p. 181, 1969
- [T]here’s a eight-year-old kid in there twisting up hash-bombers big as cigars. — Terry Southern, Blue Movie, p. 149, 1970
- [I]t was an ace bomber of absolutely atomic North African marihooch[.] — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 80, 1971
- — Simon Worman, Joint Smoking Rules, 2001
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 286, 2003
- a tablet or capsule of amphetamine or barbiturate, hence a generic name for amphetamine or barbiturate in any form US, 1950
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 39, 1992
- a hard-hitting, aggressive boxer US, 1937
- — J. E. Lighter, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, p. 226, 1994
- a powerful, hard-breaking wave US
- — John Severson, Modern Surfing Around the World, p. 165, 1964
- an old, battered car, especially one used in a demolition derby contest US
- They’re running modifieds, late models, bombers, and the front-and-back demotion derby. — San Francisco Chronicle (from the New York Times), p. 70, 2 September 1977
- Take a ‘63 Ford Fairlane, rip out the torn upholstery, weld in a roll cage, paint a number on its dented sides and what do yo have? A bomber. — San Francisco Examinaer and Chronicle, p. 6, 1 July 1979
- a person with poor fashion sense US
- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 15, 1997
- a sixteen-ton oil-carrying wagon UK
- — Frank McKenna, A Glossary of Railwaymen’s Talk, 1970
- a nicely restored older car US
- This used to be Bianca’s brother’s greatest source of pride—a fully restored Chevy Impala, what the homies call a bomber. — Leon Bing, Do or Die, p. 72, 1991
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