bomber
UK/ˈbɒmə(ɹ)/US/ˈbɑmɚ/
bomber noun: a military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs. Also the ellipsis of bomber jacket.
Noun
bomber (plural bombers)
- A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
- As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.2020 March 7, Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, “History’s deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II and you’ve probably never heard of it”, in CNN
- B-2 bombers are the only plane capable of carrying the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which experts have highlighted as the only type of bomb potentially capable of destroying Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility. Each B-2 bomber is able to carry two of these “bunker buster” bombs, which weigh...2025 June 21, Thomas Bordeaux, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, “US moves B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran options”, in CNN
- A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
- 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.2000 June 6, Nick Hopkins, “The bomber who tried to unleash a race war”, in The Guardian
- A 22-ounce beer bottle.
- A large cannabis cigarette.
- In Canada, marihuana cigarettes rarely contain any tobacco, and may vary in size from a few hundred milligrams up to a several gram "bomber."2011, Vera Rubin, Cannabis and Culture, page 510
- That night, I swallowed the last of my pain pills, smoked a bomber, and let the drugs carry me away.2017, Thomas Conrad, The Reunion
Adjective
bomber (comparative more bomber, superlative most bomber)
Also used as
bomber is also the ellipsis of bomber jacket.
bomber is also the ellipsis of graffiti bomber.
bomber meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
bomber in Hindi
- aircraft
- बमवर्षक bamvarṣak
bomber in Marathi
- aircraft
- बाँबफेकी विमान bŏmbphekī vimān
bomber in Urdu
- بمبار, بمبار حملہ آور, بمبار بمبار
bomber in Bengali
- বোমাবাজ, বোমা হামলাকারী
More languagesFewer languages
- bomber in Telugu
- బాంబర్, బాంబర్ బాంబర్
- bomber in Malayalam
- ബോംബർ
- bomber in Kannada
- ಬಾಂಬರ್, ಬಾಂಬ್ ದಾಳಿಕೋರ
- bomber in Punjabi
- ਬੰਬਾਰ
- bomber in Gujarati
- બોમ્બર
- bomber in Odia
- ବୋମାବର୍ଷକ, ବୋମାବାଜ
- bomber in Nepali
- बमवर्षक
- bomber in Arabic
- قَاذِفَة قَنَابِل qāḏifat qanābil
- bomber in Malay
- pengebom
- bomber in Persian
- بمبافکن bomb-afkan
- bomber in Thai
- เครื่องบินทิ้งระเบิด krʉ̂ʉang-bin-tíng-rá-bə̀ət
- bomber in Vietnamese
- máy bay ném bom, oanh tạc cơ
- bomber in Myanmar
- ဗုံးကြဲလေယာဉ် bum:krai:leyany
Examples of bomber in a sentence
- The bomber had passed through one checkpoint before blowing himself up at a second barrier.
- During the war, everyone's railings were taken away to make bombers.
- The bomber limped home on one engine.
Synonyms of bomber
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Forms of bomber
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bombers |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more bomber |
| superlative | most bomber |
Origin of bomber
From bomb + -er.
A shortened form of bombproof.
Words formed from bomber
- A-bomber
- ban-the-bomber
- biscuit bomber
- black bomber
- bomber gap
- bomber jacket
- bomber-jacketed
- bomber seat
- bomber's moon
- borate bomber
- brown bomber
- dive bomber
- fighter-bomber
- fighter bomber
- heavy bomber
- light bomber
- love bomber
- medium bomber
- nail bomber
- Obomber
- patrol bomber
- shoe bomber
- shoeicide bomber
- skip bomber
- slurry bomber
- stealth bomber
- strategic bomber
- suicide bomber
- superbomber
- torpedo bomber
- water bomber
- yarn bomber
- Zoombomber
Phrases with bomber
Questions about bomber
- What does bomber mean?
- Bomber means a military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
- What is bomber in Hindi?
- Bomber in Hindi is बमवर्षक (bamvarṣak). See Bomber meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bomber?
- Bomber can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bomber?
- Bomber is pronounced /ˈbɒmə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bomber?
- The plural of bomber is bombers.
Words near bomber in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bomber (page history and authors); bomber (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bomber (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bomber (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bomber (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bomber (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bomber (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bomber (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bomber (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bomber (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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