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dropped the bomb

dropped the bomb is the simple past and past participle of drop the bomb.

Meaning of drop the 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

Questions about dropped the bomb

What is dropped the bomb the simple past and past participle of?
Dropped the bomb is the simple past and past participle of drop the bomb.

Words near dropped the bomb in the dictionary

  1. dropped scone
  2. dropped scones
  3. dropped someone a line
  4. dropped someone in it
  5. dropped the ball
  6. dropped the bomb
  7. dropped the f-bomb
  8. dropped the gloves
  9. dropped the H-bomb
  10. dropped the hammer
  11. dropped the hand

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