love bomb

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See also: lovebomb and love-bomb

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Noun

love bomb (plural love bombs)

  1. An attempt to influence a person by lavish demonstrations of attention and affection.
    • 2023, Dawn Dais, The Sh!t No One Tells You About Divorce: A Guide to Breaking Up, Falling Apart, and Putting Yourself Back Together, Hachette, →ISBN:
      Be careful not to drop love bombs, and try not to get wrapped up in someone else's bombing.

Verb

love bomb (third-person singular simple present love bombs, present participle love bombing, simple past and past participle love bombed)

  1. Alternative form of love-bomb
    • 2018 [2014], Andrew Odgers, editor, From Broken Attachments to Earned Security, Routledge, →ISBN:
      My hypothesis is that a great many of the troubled children who have been love bombed would have had elevated or blunted cortisol prior to the intervention and that measured afterwards, the experience would have “reset” them to more benign ones.

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