Noun

(en noun)

An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.

* 2008 , Sidney Gelb, Foreign Service Agent , page 629,

The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb .

# (label) The atomic bomb.

# (label) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.

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(label) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.

* 1997 , Eric L. Flom, Chaplin in the Sound Era: An Analysis of the Seven Talkies , page 277,

Projection problems plagued Countess? London premiere on January 5, 1967, Jerry Epstein recalled, and it was perhaps an omen, for reaction by critics afterward was swift and immediate: The film was a bomb .

* 2010 , (Tony Curtis), (Peter Golenbock), American Prince: My Autobiography , unnumbered page,

The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa , in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon.

* 2011 , Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture , page 11,

The movie was a bomb , but it put the band before an even larger audience.

# A car in poor condition.

#* 2005 August 6, Warm affection for a rust-bucket past , [http://www.smh.com.au/news/words/warm-affection-for-a-rustbucket-past/2005/08/04/1123125839592.html]

Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.

#* 2010 , Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice , page 19,

We?ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb .

#* 2011 , Amarinda Jones, Seducing Celestine , page 49,

After two weeks of driving it she knew the car was a bomb and she did not need anyone saying it to her. The only one allowed to pick on her car was her. Piece of crap car

A large amount of money, a fortune.

* 2009 , Matthew Vierling, The Blizzard , page 133,

When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must?ve cost a bomb .”

* 2010 , Liz Young, Fair Game , page 136,

‘You?ve already spent a bomb !’

‘Not on'' it, Sal — ''under it. Presents!’ As we eventually staggered up to bed, Sally said to me, ‘I hope to God he?s not been spending a bomb on presents, too.’

* 2011 , Michael R. Häack, Passport: A Novel of International Intrigue , page 47,

The kids cost a bomb to feed, they eat all the time.

* 2011 , Bibe, A Victim , page 38,

He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.

(label) Something highly effective or attractive.

# A success; the bomb.

# A very attractive woman; a bombshell.

# An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.

# A long forward pass.

# (label) A jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, for maximum splashing.

(label) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.

* 2008 , François Cardarelli, Materials Handbook: A Concise Desktop Reference , page 276,

The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb .

(label) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

A pillar of irona great bomb in the chamber beneath.

Noun

(washes)

The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.

I'm going to have a quick wash before coming to bed.

My jacket needs a wash .

A liquid used for washing.

The quantity of clothes washed at a time.

There's a lot in that wash : maybe you should split it into two piles.

(arts) A smooth and translucent .

The sound of breaking of the seas, e.g., on the shore.

I could hear the wash of the wave.

The wake of a moving ship.

The ship left a big wash

Sail away from the wash to avoid rocking the boat.

The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.

A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.

mouth wash

hand wash

Ground washed away to the sea or a river.

* Mortimer

The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled.

A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.

* Shakespeare

These Lincoln washes have devoured them.

A shallow body of water.

In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.

* 1997 , Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature

In some desert-wash systems (which have been termed “xero-riparian”)

* 1999 , Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert

... though the wash may carry surface water for only a few hours a year.

* 2005 , Le Hayes, Pilgrims in the Desert: The Early History of the East Mojave Desert

Rock Spring Wash' continues a short distance then joins Watson '''Wash'''. Water from Rock Spring comes out of the boulder strewn ' wash and disappears into the sand

An situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.

* 2003 , David Brenner, I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup , page 100:

I knew that for every vote I cast for, say, the Republicans, some kid at a polling place nearby was casting his votes for the Democrats, so it was probably a wash or close to it.

Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.

(Shakespeare)

In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.

A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

(nautical) The blade of an oar.

The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.

Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.