Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A combat aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
- noun One who makes and sets off bombs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight.
- noun a large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the US.
- noun a person who drops bombs or plants and explodes bombs, especially surreptitously.
- noun a
bomber jacket .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
military aircraft designed tocarry anddrop bombs . - noun A person who makes and
detonates bombs. - noun
bomber jacket - adjective climbing, slang Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear (n.b. the forms "more bomber" or "most bomber" are unusual).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight
- noun a person who plants bombs
- noun a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
Etymologies
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Examples
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SECOND BASE: Although the rail-thin bomber from the Bronx, Alfonso Soriano, came within a whisker of joining the exclusive 40-40 club, Jeff Kent's production at the plate and in the field for the Giants was too much to ignore.
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It turns out that the cashier girl was the red shirt sender and the bomber is actually the guy strapped with bombs.
Detective Conan: Manga File 700 to 704 – The “Target Located” arc « Undercover 2009
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This particular capability of the bomber is one of the reasons for maintaining a bomber force, and reinforces the need for continuing to provide some kind of bomber defence for the next few years.
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If we had caught them before they killed themselves, should we have declared them enemy combatants on the grounds that “being a suicide bomber is the typical MO of Islamist terrorists”?
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Being a captured failed suicide bomber is clue enough to hold this guy, interrogate him, gather any other intelligence about the guy, and all before charging him or giving him rights.
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Really, the matter of where someone stands on a trial for the underpants bomber is a pretty good acid test for whether someone deserves to be taken seriously in American politics.
Matthew Yglesias » Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism 2010
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The Uni-bomber is basically an anti-civilizationist/primitivist and an collaborator John Zerzan, in fact I think he still writes his ranting in prison.
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Being a suicide bomber is the typical MO of Islamist terrorists, especially those in Al Qaeda.
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This one-off thriller from 1999 is about a secret US plan to remove a German bomber from the glacier on which it crashed in 1945.
Thrillers – review John O'Connell 2010
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In their minds, the underwear bomber is clearly guilty (not that I am denying this), and so torture just allows us to skip over that stupid trial process.
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