Other forms: bombs
A bomb is a weapon that explodes and destroys what is near it. Drop a bomb, a bomb went off, defuse the bomb.
Most of the damage comes from the blast wave and from fragments rather than from fire. In slang the word goes both ways: in Britain a film that bombs has failed, and in older American slang the bomb means the best thing there is.
1nounbombA weapon that explodes and destroys what is near it.
“Builders found an old wartime bomb, and nearby homes had to be evacuated.”
bomb is a weapon.
Italian bomba comes from Latin bombus, a booming sound, from a Greek word imitating the noise.
French
bombe
English, today
bomb
Borrowed from French bombe. From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (“booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound of the sound itself. a doublet of bombe. Compare boom.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA