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Is bomb a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bomb is a Scrabble US word. The word bomb is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

B3O1M3B3

Is bomb a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bomb is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

B3O1M3B3

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Yes. The word bomb is a Words With Friends word. The word bomb is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4O1M4B4

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4-letter words (1 found)

BOMB,

3-letter words (2 found)

BOB,MOB,

2-letter words (4 found)

BO,MO,OB,OM,

You can make 7 words from bomb according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bomb

bomb obmb bmob mbob ombb mobb bobm obbm bbom bbom obbm bobm bmbo mbbo bbmo bbmo mbbo bmbo ombb mobb obmb bomb mbob bmob

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word bomb. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in bomb.

Definitions and meaning of bomb

bomb

Etymology

From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɒm/
  • (US) IPA(key): /bɑm/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /bʌm/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /bɔm/
  • Rhymes: -ɒm
  • Homophones: balm (for speakers with the father-bother merger), BOM

Noun

bomb (plural bombs)

  1. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
    1. (dated, often with the) The atomic bomb.
    2. (figurative) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
    3. (archaic) A mortar shell.
    4. (historical, archaic) Ellipsis of bomb ship.
    5. (colloquial) Any explosive charge.
  2. (slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
  3. (US, Australia, informal) A car in poor condition.
    Synonyms: lemon, rustbucket
  4. (UK, Australia, slang) A large amount of money.
    Synonyms: fortune, packet, pretty penny
    • 2011, Bibe, A Victim, page 38,
      He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.
  5. (social) Something highly effective or attractive.
    1. (chiefly British, slang) A success; the bomb.
    2. (chiefly British, India, slang) A very attractive woman.
      Synonym: bombshell
    4. (often in combination) An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
      Synonym: bombshell
      1. An obscene word identified by its first letter.
    5. (American football, slang) A long forward pass.
    6. (rugby, soccer, slang) A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
      Synonyms: garryowen, up and under
    7. (basketball, slang) A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
  6. A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
  7. (chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
  8. (obsolete) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
  9. (slang) A woman’s breast.
  10. (professional wrestling) A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
  11. (slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
  12. (colloquial) An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.
    Synonym: cannonball

Usage notes

  • The diametrical slang meanings are somewhat distinguishable by the article. For “a success”, the phrase is generally the bomb. Otherwise bomb can mean “a failure”.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • lemon

Verb

bomb (third-person singular simple present bombs, present participle bombing, simple past and past participle bombed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
    • 2000, Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research, Volumes 32-33, page 65,
      15 May: US jets bombed air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally bombing civilian targets. (AP)
    1. (transitive, figuratively, often with with) To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
  2. (informal)
    1. To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
    2. To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
    3. (especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed.
  3. (slang)
    1. (reflexive) To make oneself drunk.
      • 1995, Four Rooms (film)
        TED: The champagne you ordered, sir.
        MAN: No time for this. Leave it on ice.
        WIFE: But I want some now...
        MAN: There'll be plenty for you at the party, baby, you can bomb yourself all you want at the party.
    2. To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
    3. (transitive, intransitive) To fail dismally.
      • 2000, Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview, in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, Comic Book Artist Collection, page 12,
        Carmen: […] Then it bombed and it bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I′m trying everything I can but it′s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.
    4. (intransitive, computing) To crash.
    5. (transitive, slang) To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
  4. (obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
  5. (slang) Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”)

Derived terms

  • bomber
  • bomb out
  • dive-bomb, divebomb
  • Zoombomb, Zoombombing

Translations

Adjective

bomb (comparative more bomb, superlative most bomb)

  1. (slang) Great, awesome.

See also

  • the bomb

References

  • Stanley, Oma (1937) “I. Vowel Sounds in Stressed Syllables”, in The Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2), New York: Columbia University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 7, page 17.
  • “bomb”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “bomb”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

  • bomb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bomˀb/, [ˈb̥ɔmˀb̥]
  • Homophone: bump

Verb

bomb

  1. imperative of bombe

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bumb/
  • Rhymes: -umb

Verb

bomb

  1. imperative of bombe

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

bomb c

  1. a bomb

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

  • bomba
  • bombardera
  • bombastisk

References

  • bomb in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • bomb in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • bomb in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org