bomber

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.

   As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.

   The nail bomber who killed three people and injured dozens of others in a terrifying campaign last spring told police he was a homophobic Nazi, and that he hoped the explosions would "set fire to the country and stir up a racial war", the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

3. 3
   noun

   Ellipsis of bomber jacket.

   A few years ago, the leather bomber was a gold mine for retailers and a gravy train for vendors. Consumers were crazy for them.

4. 4
   noun

   Ellipsis of graffiti bomber.

   To bomb the system is to saturate MTA subway cars with one's signatures. ln the 1980s, certain writers were identified as bombers because they had mastered all disciplines of the form: insides, throw-ups, window-downs, top-to-bottoms, […]

5. 5
   noun

   A large cannabis cigarette.

   In Canada, marihuana cigarettes rarely contain any tobacco, and may vary in size from a few hundred milligrams up to a several gram "bomber."

6. 6
   noun

   a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight

7. 7
   noun

   a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments)

8. 8
   noun

   a person who plants bombs

Etymology

A shortened form of bombproof.