bomber

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/ˈbɒmə(ɹ)/    /ˈbɑmɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
    — As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.
  2. A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
    — The nail bomber who killed three people and injured dozens of others in a terrifying campaign last spring told police he was a homophobic Nazi, and that he hoped the explosions would "set fire to the country and stir up a racial war", the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
  3. Ellipsis of bomber jacket. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — A few years ago, the leather bomber was a gold mine for retailers and a gravy train for vendors. Consumers were crazy for them.
  4. A 22-ounce beer bottle. US,slang
  5. Ellipsis of graffiti bomber. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — To bomb the system is to saturate MTA subway cars with one's signatures. ln the 1980s, certain writers were identified as bombers because they had mastered all disciplines of the form: insides, throw-ups, window-downs, top-to-bottoms, […]
  6. A large cannabis cigarette. slang
    — In Canada, marihuana cigarettes rarely contain any tobacco, and may vary in size from a few hundred milligrams up to a several gram "bomber."
形容词 adj.
  1. Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear. slang

词形变化

bombers plural more bomber comparative most bomber superlative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English bomb
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bomber
From bomb + -er.
词源 2
A shortened form of bombproof.
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