bomber
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɒmə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑmɚ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒmə(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bomber (plural bombers)
- (aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
- A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
- 2000 June 6, Nick Hopkins, “The bomber who tried to unleash a race war”, in The Guardian[1]:
- 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.
- (clothing) Ellipsis of bomber jacket..
- 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Guardian[2]:
- First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. […]
- (US, slang) A 22-ounce beer bottle.
- Short for graffiti bomber.
- 2002, Ivor Miller, Aerosol kingdom: subway painters of New York City, page 195:
- 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, […]
- (slang) A large cannabis cigarette.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette
- 2011, Vera Rubin, Cannabis and Culture, page 510:
- In Canada, marihuana cigarettes rarely contain any tobacco, and may vary in size from a few hundred milligrams up to a several gram "bomber."
- 2017, Thomas Conrad, The Reunion:
- That night, I swallowed the last of my pain pills, smoked a bomber, and let the drugs carry me away.
Derived terms edit
- A-bomber
- ban-the-bomber
- biscuit bomber
- black bomber
- bomber gap
- bomber jacket
- bomber-jacketed
- bomber seat
- bomber's moon
- brown bomber
- dive bomber
- fighter-bomber
- fighter bomber
- heavy bomber
- light bomber
- medium bomber
- nail bomber
- shoe bomber
- shoeicide bomber
- skip bomber
- stealth bomber
- strategic bomber
- suicide bomber
- superbomber
- torpedo bomber
- water bomber
- Zoombomber
Related terms edit
Translations edit
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Etymology 2 edit
A shortened form of bombproof.
Adjective edit
bomber (comparative more bomber, superlative most bomber)
Usage notes edit
The forms "more bomber" or "most bomber" are unusual.
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
Aragonese edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bomber m (plural bombers)
- firefighter (person whose job is to put out fires)
- 2010, Academia de l’Aragonés, Propuesta ortografica de l’Academia de l’Aragonés, 2nd edition, Edacar, page 45:
- Corre! Grita a os bombers! Fe-lo ya!
- Run! Shout to the firefighters! Do it now!
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [bumˈbe]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [bomˈbe]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [bomˈbeɾ]
Audio (file)
Noun edit
Danish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From bombe (“to bomb”, agent noun) + -er, calque of English bomber.
Noun edit
bomber c (singular definite bomberen, plural indefinite bombere)
- (rare) bomber (military aircraft dropping bombs)
- Synonym: bombefly
- (rare) bomber (a pilot in a bomber)
Declension edit
References edit
- “bomber” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
bomber c
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
bomber
French edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bomber
- (intransitive or reflexive) to bulge
- (figurative) to cower, to bend
- (colloquial) to move, walk quickly
- (colloquial) to spray paint (especially of taggers or graffiti artists)
Conjugation edit
infinitive | simple | bomber | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | bombant /bɔ̃.bɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | bombé /bɔ̃.be/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | bombe /bɔ̃b/ |
bombes /bɔ̃b/ |
bombe /bɔ̃b/ |
bombons /bɔ̃.bɔ̃/ |
bombez /bɔ̃.be/ |
bombent /bɔ̃b/ |
imperfect | bombais /bɔ̃.bɛ/ |
bombais /bɔ̃.bɛ/ |
bombait /bɔ̃.bɛ/ |
bombions /bɔ̃.bjɔ̃/ |
bombiez /bɔ̃.bje/ |
bombaient /bɔ̃.bɛ/ | |
past historic2 | bombai /bɔ̃.be/ |
bombas /bɔ̃.ba/ |
bomba /bɔ̃.ba/ |
bombâmes /bɔ̃.bam/ |
bombâtes /bɔ̃.bat/ |
bombèrent /bɔ̃.bɛʁ/ | |
future | bomberai /bɔ̃.bʁe/ |
bomberas /bɔ̃.bʁa/ |
bombera /bɔ̃.bʁa/ |
bomberons /bɔ̃.bʁɔ̃/ |
bomberez /bɔ̃.bʁe/ |
bomberont /bɔ̃.bʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | bomberais /bɔ̃.bʁɛ/ |
bomberais /bɔ̃.bʁɛ/ |
bomberait /bɔ̃.bʁɛ/ |
bomberions /bɔ̃.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bomberiez /bɔ̃.bə.ʁje/ |
bomberaient /bɔ̃.bʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | bombe /bɔ̃b/ |
bombes /bɔ̃b/ |
bombe /bɔ̃b/ |
bombions /bɔ̃.bjɔ̃/ |
bombiez /bɔ̃.bje/ |
bombent /bɔ̃b/ |
imperfect2 | bombasse /bɔ̃.bas/ |
bombasses /bɔ̃.bas/ |
bombât /bɔ̃.ba/ |
bombassions /bɔ̃.ba.sjɔ̃/ |
bombassiez /bɔ̃.ba.sje/ |
bombassent /bɔ̃.bas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | bombe /bɔ̃b/ |
— | bombons /bɔ̃.bɔ̃/ |
bombez /bɔ̃.be/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English bomber (jacket).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bomber m (plural bombers)
Further reading edit
- “bomber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism. In the meaning "bomber jacket", a clipping of English bomber jacket. In the other meanings, transferred senses from the verb English bomb.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bomber m (invariable)
- graffiti artist
- goal scorer (football)
- bomber jacket
References edit
- ^ bomber in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams edit
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
bomber (gerund bombéthie)
Derived terms edit
- bombeux (“bomber”)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
bomber m or f
Verb edit
bomber
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
bomber f
Swedish edit
Noun edit
bomber
- indefinite plural of bomb