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dropping the bomb

dropping the bomb is the present participle and gerund 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 dropping the bomb

What is dropping the bomb the present participle and gerund of?
Dropping the bomb is the present participle and gerund of drop the bomb.

Words near dropping the bomb in the dictionary

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

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