bomber

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See also: Bomber

English

Halifax Bomber of the Canadian Forces

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

bomb +‎ -er

Noun

bomber (plural bombers)

  1. (aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
  2. 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:
      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.
  3. (clothing) Ellipsis of bomber jacket..
    • 1991 March 18, Jeff Black, “The Bomber Jacket Is Taking Lots of Flak”, in DNR, volume 21, number 53, →ISSN, page 13:
      A few years ago, the leather bomber was a gold mine for retailers and a gravy train for vendors. Consumers were crazy for them.
    • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Guardian‎:
      First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. […]
  4. (US, slang) A 22-ounce beer bottle.
  5. 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, […]
  6. (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.
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Translations

Etymology 2

A shortened form of bombproof.

Adjective

bomber (comparative more bomber, superlative most bomber)

  1. (climbing, slang) Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear.
Usage notes

The forms "more bomber" or "most bomber" are unusual.

Further reading

Anagrams

Aragonese

FWOTD – 18 July 2013

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bomˈbe(ɾ)/
  • Rhymes: -e(ɾ)
  • Syllabification: bom‧ber

Noun

bomber m (plural bombers)

  1. 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

Etymology

From bomba +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

bomber m (plural bombers, feminine bombera)

  1. firefighter

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From bombe (“to bomb”, agent noun) +‎ -er, calque of English bomber.

Noun

bomber c (singular definite bomberen, plural indefinite bombere)

  1. (rare) bomber (military aircraft dropping bombs)
    Synonym: bombefly
  2. (rare) bomber (a pilot in a bomber)
Declension
Declension of bomber
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bomber bomberen bombere bomberne
genitive bombers bomberens bomberes bombernes

References

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

bomber c

  1. indefinite plural of bombe

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

bomber

  1. present tense of bombe

French

Etymology 1

From bombe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Verb

bomber

  1. (intransitive or reflexive) to bulge
  2. (figurative) to cower, to bend
  3. (colloquial) to move, walk quickly
  4. (colloquial) to spray paint (especially of taggers or graffiti artists)
Conjugation
Conjugation of bomber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple bomber
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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bomber (jacket).

Pronunciation

Noun

bomber m (plural bombers)

  1. bomber jacket

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

bomber m (invariable)

  1. graffiti artist
  2. goal scorer (football)
  3. bomber jacket

References

  1. ^ bomber in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Norman

Etymology

From English bomb + -er.

Verb

bomber (gerund bombéthie)

  1. (Jersey) to bomb

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bomber m or f

  1. indefinite plural of bombe

Verb

bomber

  1. present of bombe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bomber f

  1. indefinite plural of bombe

Swedish

Noun

bomber

  1. indefinite plural of bomb
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