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drops the bomb

drops the bomb is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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What is drops the bomb the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Drops the bomb is the third-person singular simple present indicative of drop the bomb.

Words near drops the bomb in the dictionary

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

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