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review bombed

review bombed is the simple past and past participle of review bomb.

Meaning of review bomb

Verb

review bomb (third-person singular simple present review bombs, present participle review bombing, simple past and past participle review bombed)

  1. (Internet) To give something a deluge of negative user reviews.
    • For one well-known example, the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters was massively review bombed before the film had even been released, with a good part of the downvoting coming from men who objected to the remake's all-female cast.2021, Donald A. Barclay, chapter 4, in Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-truth Era, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 110

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Questions about review bombed

What is review bombed the simple past and past participle of?
Review bombed is the simple past and past participle of review bomb.

Words near review bombed in the dictionary

  1. revies
  2. review
  3. review article
  4. review articles
  5. review bomb
  6. review bombed
  7. review bombing
  8. review bombs
  9. review copies
  10. review copy
  11. review-proof

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