Shahi - A visual dictionary

See also Bomb, the bomb, bombe

(noun)
1. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
2. : A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
  ''That movie was a bomb.
3. A car in poor condition. Used often as old bomb.
  - 2005 August 6, Warm affection for a rust-bucket past, Sydney Morning Herald [1]
    "Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection."
4. A success; the bomb.
  Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.
5. A very attractive woman; a bombshell.
6. A long forward pass.
7. A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure. "The titanium tetrachloride is then reduced with sodium to form pure metallic titanium (99.9%) by heating TiCl4 with Na in a steel bomb at 700–800 °C in the Hunter process."
(verb)
1. To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
2. To fail dismally.
  Despite all the marketing, our product bombed. Nobody would buy it.
  Dunce cap bombed his examination yet again.

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