r-bomb
r-bomb is the alternative form of R-bomb.
Verb capitalized: R-bomb
R-bomb (third-person singular simple present R-bombs, present participle R-bombing, simple past and past participle R-bombed)
- To leave someone's text message on read without replying.
- Being r-bombed is roughhh2010 November 3, @victoriapand, Twitter, archived from the original on 16 May 2024
- "Joe," Juan said. "You been r-bombing me." ¶ He turned around and faced Juan. ¶ "Not me," he said. "Dad's got my phone. Wants to know what I'm into."2015, Alfred R. Taylor, The Write Way to Get a Girlfriend, →ISBN, page 53
- Synonyms:
- leave someone on read
Noun (1) capitalized: R-bomb
R-bomb (plural R-bombs)
- Any of various shocking or offensive words starting with the letter R.
- The thirty minutes between her dropping the R-bomb [i.e., reproduction] and the bell for the end of the lesson dragged by with glacial slowness. She might as well not have been there, she felt, for all the attention that was paid.2009, Alex Coleman, Little Black Everything, Baldoyle; Dublin: Poolbeg, →ISBN, page 123
- When White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said a group of liberal activists were "fucking retarded," he was roundly condemned for dropping an R-bomb that way.2010, Ralph Keyes, Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms, New York: Little, Brown and Company, page 212
Noun (2) capitalized: R-bomb
R-bomb (plural R-bombs)
- A relativistic kinetic weapon.
- Mr. Paterson is optimizing a more plausible scenario. His "poor man's R-bomb" is constrained by a particular exhaust velocity, and the question is how to squeeze the maximum kinetic energy into the payload. I'm not sure whether his analysis is correct, but it seems plausible.
- The optimum energy efficiency would actually be reached at an terminal velocity equal to the exhaust velocity. But that doesn't seem to be the objective of the poor man's R-bomb. The poor man's R-bomb seems to be limited by loaded mass rather than energy budget. You don't use any sacrificial...2026 August 31 (last accessed), Isaac Kuo, quotee, “Exotic Weapons”, in Atomic Rockets, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2026
Synonyms of r-bomb
Forms of r-bomb
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | r-bombs |
| present participle | r-bombing |
| past participle | r-bombed |
| past | r-bombed |
| third-person singular present | R-bombs |
| present participle | R-bombing |
| past participle | R-bombed |
| past | R-bombed |
| alternative form | r-bomb |
| alternative form | R bomb |
| Noun | |
| plural | R-bombs |
Origin of r-bomb
Abbreviation of read + bomb.
Abbreviations.
Abbreviation of relativistic + bomb.
Questions about r-bomb
- What does r-bomb mean?
- R-bomb means to leave someone's text message on read without replying.
- What is r-bomb the alternative form of?
- R-bomb is the alternative form of R-bomb.
- What part of speech is r-bomb?
- R-bomb can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of r-bomb?
- The past tense of r-bomb is r-bombed.
Words near r-bomb in the dictionary
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