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Etymology

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bomb +‎ -like

Adjective

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bomblike (comparative more bomblike, superlative most bomblike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bomb.
    • 2007 July 27, Alastair Macaulay, “I May Be Writhing on the Floor, but on Screen I’m Soaring Like Superman”, in New York Times[1]:
      The dance carries on undisturbed by this possible news footage, until, after a while, the dancers line up on one of three arching bridges (the main items of Ms. Hadid’s décor, variously shunted around the stage) to look, calmly, at this bomblike view, as if to say “Oh la la!”