{
    "term": "bomb",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a weapon designed to explode at a particular time or when it is dropped or thrown",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **bomb goes off/explodes**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hundreds of **bombs were dropped** on the city."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **plant/detonate a bomb**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **suicide bomb**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **roadside bomb** *(= one that is designed to blow up vehicles)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **bomb attack/blast**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "extensive bomb damage"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A terrorist bomb ripped through the town's packed shopping centre."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Eighty people died when bombs rained down on the city's crowded streets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Enemy planes dropped bombs along the railway line."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He used a clock to make a home-made bomb."
                },
                {
                    "text": "India started to build a nuclear bomb."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Police suspect terrorists planted the bomb."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The land was scarred with bomb craters."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plane had been adapted to carry bombs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The suspect was apprehended for planting a fake bomb in a bus terminal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their truck was hit by a stray bomb."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a practice flight with dummy bombs"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was no warning of the bomb blast which ripped through the packed station."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["War and conflict"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "huge", "large"],
                "verb + bomb": ["place", "plant", "put"],
                "bomb + verb": ["fall", "rain", "rain down"],
                "bomb + noun": ["attack", "blast", "explosion"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "nuclear weapons (atomic or hydrogen bombs)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "countries that have the bomb"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "huge", "large"],
                "verb + bomb": ["place", "plant", "put"],
                "bomb + verb": ["fall", "rain", "rain down"],
                "bomb + noun": ["attack", "blast", "explosion"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a lot of money",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "That dress must have cost a bomb!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some company directors make an absolute bomb."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a complete failure",
            "labels": "(North American English, informal)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The musical was a complete bomb on Broadway."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Difficulty and failure"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a long forward throw of the ball",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a container in which a liquid such as paint or insect poison is kept under pressure and released as a spray or as foam",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a bug bomb *(= used for killing insects)*"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be very good; to be the best",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Check out the new website. It's the bomb!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be very successful",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Our performance went down a bomb."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The party was really going (like) a bomb."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her new novel is going like a bomb *(= selling well)*."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Success"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to go very fast",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bɒm/",
                "audio": "bo/bomb/bomb__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bɑːm/",
                "audio": "bo/bomb/bomb__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 17th cent.: from French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin."
}