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drop the bomb

drop the bomb verb: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, bomb.

Verb

drop the bomb (third-person singular simple present drops the bomb, present participle dropping the bomb, simple past and past participle dropped the bomb)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, bomb.
  2. (idiomatic) to reveal dramatic and unexpected news that changes a situation completely
    • A mere two months after the New Orleans hearings, the Supreme Court dropped the bomb that Eastland and other white southerners feared: Brown. Much as the Chinese Communists' victory and the Russian's building of the atomic bomb in 1949 had ignited the Cold War and anti-Communism, the Brown decision...2011, Chris Myers Asch, The Senator and the Sharecropper, →ISBN
    • Melanie dropped the bomb. "His buddy was a Mr. Henry Decatur."2011, Cege Smith, Edge of Shadows, →ISBN

Forms of drop the bomb

third-person singular presentdrops the bomb
present participledropping the bomb
past participledropped the bomb
pastdropped the bomb

Questions about drop the bomb

What does drop the bomb mean?
Drop the bomb means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, bomb.
What part of speech is drop the bomb?
Drop the bomb is a verb.
What is the past tense of drop the bomb?
The past tense of drop the bomb is dropped the bomb.

Words near drop the bomb in the dictionary

  1. drop tank
  2. drop tanks
  3. drop target
  4. drop targets
  5. drop the ball
  6. drop the bomb
  7. drop the f-bomb
  8. drop the gloves
  9. drop the H-bomb
  10. drop the hammer
  11. drop the hand

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