bomber

See also: Bomber

English

Halifax Bomber of the Canadian Forces

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒmə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑmɚ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒmə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From bomb +‎ -er.

Noun

bomber (plural bombers)

1. (aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
2. A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
   • 2000 June 6, Nick Hopkins, “The bomber who tried to unleash a race war”, in The Guardian‎:

     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. (clothing) Ellipsis of bomber jacket..
   • 1991 March 18, Jeff Black, “The Bomber Jacket Is Taking Lots of Flak”, in DNR, volume 21, number 53, →ISSN, page 13:

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

   • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Guardian‎:

     First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. […]

4. (US, slang) A 22-ounce beer bottle.
5. Short for graffiti bomber.
   • 2002, Ivor Miller, Aerosol kingdom: subway painters of New York City, page 195:

     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, […]

6. (slang) A large cannabis cigarette.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette

   • 2011, Vera Rubin, Cannabis and Culture, page 510:

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

   • 2017, Thomas Conrad, The Reunion:

     That night, I swallowed the last of my pain pills, smoked a bomber, and let the drugs carry me away.

Derived terms

• A-bomber
• ban-the-bomber
• biscuit bomber
• black bomber
• bomber gap
• bomber jacket
• bomber-jacketed
• bomber seat
• bomber's moon
• brown bomber
• dive bomber
• fighter bomber
• fighter-bomber
• heavy bomber
• light bomber
• medium bomber
• nail bomber
• Obomber
• shoe bomber
• shoeicide bomber
• skip bomber
• stealth bomber
• strategic bomber
• suicide bomber
• superbomber
• torpedo bomber
• water bomber
• Zoombomber

 

Related terms

• bombardier

Translations

aircraft

Afrikaans: bomwerper (af) Arabic: قَاذِفَة قَنَابِل f (qāḏifat qanābil) Armenian: ռմբակոծիչ (hy) (ṙmbakocičʻ) Azerbaijani: bombardmançı, bombardman Belarusian: бамбаві́к m (bambavík) Bulgarian: бомбардирова́ч (bg) m (bombardirováč) Burmese: ဗုံးကြဲလေယာဉ် (my) (bum:krai:leyany) Catalan: bombarder m Chinese: Mandarin: 轟炸機／轰炸机 (zh) (hōngzhàjī) Czech: bombardér (cs) m Danish: bombefly (da) n Dutch: bommenwerper (nl) m Esperanto: bombardero Estonian: pommitaja Finnish: pommittaja (fi) French: bombardier (fr) m Georgian: ბომბდამშენი (bombdamšeni) German: Bomber (de) m, Bombenflugzeug (de) n Greek: βομβαρδιστικό (el) n (vomvardistikó) Hawaiian: mokulele hoʻopahū Hebrew: מפציץ m (maftsits) Hindi: बमवर्षक m (bamvarṣak) Hungarian: bombázó (hu) Icelandic: sprengjuflugvél f Ido: bombardaviono (io) Irish: buamadóir m, eitleán buamála m Italian: bombardiere (it) m Japanese: 爆撃機 (ja) (ばくげきき, bakugekiki) Kazakh: бомбалаушы (bombalauşy) Korean: 폭격기(爆擊機) (ko) (pokgyeokgi) Kyrgyz: бомбардировщик (bombardirovşcik), бомбалоочу (ky) (bombaloocu) Latvian: bumbvedējs m Lithuanian: bombonešis m Macedonian: бомбарде́р m (bombardér) Manx: bleastaneyr m Marathi: बाँबफेकी विमान n (bŏmbphekī vimān) Mongolian: Cyrillic: бөмбөгдөгч (mn) (bömbögdögč), бөмбөгдөгч онгоц (bömbögdögč ongoc) Navajo: chidí naatʼáʼiʼtsoh beeʼeldǫǫh bikǫʼ neiyéhé Norman: bombeux m Norwegian: Bokmål: bombefly n Nynorsk: bombefly n Persian: بمب‌افکن (bomb-afkan) Polish: bombowiec (pl) m, samolot bombowy m Portuguese: bombardeiro (pt) m Romanian: bombardier (ro) n, avion de bombardament n Russian: бомбардиро́вщик (ru) m (bombardiróvščik) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бомба̀рде̄р m Roman: bombàrdēr (sh) m Slovak: bombardér m Slovene: bombnik (sl) m Spanish: bombardero m Tatar: бомбага тотучы (bombağa totuçı) Turkish: bombardıman uçağı (tr) Ukrainian: бомбардува́льник (uk) m (bombarduválʹnyk) Vietnamese: máy bay ném bom, oanh tạc cơ Welsh: awyren fomio f

person who bombs

Chinese: Mandarin: 投彈手／投弹手 (tóudànshǒu) Finnish: pommittaja (fi) French: artilleur (fr) m, poseur de bombes m German: Bombenleger (de) m, Bombenlegerin (de) f Greek: βομβιστής (el) m (vomvistís) Irish: buamadóir m, buamálaí m Italian: bombarolo m, attentatore (it), dinamitardo (it) Macedonian: бо́мбаш m (bómbaš) Malay: pengebom Manx: bleastaneyr m Polish: zamachowiec (pl) m Portuguese: bombista m or f Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: бомби́ст (ru) m (bombíst) Spanish: terrorista (es) m or f que pone bombas Swedish: bombman (sv) c, bombare (sv) c Turkish: bombacı (tr)

Etymology 2

A shortened form of bombproof.

Adjective

bomber (comparative more bomber, superlative most bomber)

1. (climbing, slang) Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear.

Usage notes

The forms "more bomber" or "most bomber" are unusual.

Further reading

• bomber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mobber

Aragonese

FWOTD – 18 July 2013

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bomˈbe(ɾ)/
• Rhymes: -e(ɾ)
• Syllabification: bom‧ber

Noun

bomber m (plural bombers)

1. firefighter (person whose job is to put out fires)
   • 2010, Academia de l’Aragonés, Propuesta ortografica de l’Academia de l’Aragonés, 2nd edition, Edacar, page 45:

     Corre! Grita a os bombers! Fe-lo ya!

     Run! Shout to the firefighters! Do it now!

Catalan

Etymology

From bomba +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bumˈbe]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bomˈbe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [bomˈbeɾ]

• Audio:

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Noun

bomber m (plural bombers, feminine bombera)

1. firefighter

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bombər/, [ˈb̥ɔmb̥ɐ]
• Homophone: bumper

Etymology 1

From bombe (“to bomb”, agent noun) +‎ -er, calque of English bomber.

Noun

bomber c (singular definite bomberen, plural indefinite bombere)

1. (rare) bomber (military aircraft dropping bombs)

   Synonym: bombefly

2. (rare) bomber (a pilot in a bomber)

Declension

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bomber	bomberen	bombere	bomberne
genitive	bombers	bomberens	bomberes	bombernes

Declension of bomber

References

• “bomber” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

bomber c

1. indefinite plural of bombe

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

bomber

1. present tense of bombe

French

Etymology 1

From bombe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃.be/

Verb

bomber

1. (intransitive or reflexive) to bulge
2. (figurative) to cower, to bend
3. (colloquial) to move, walk quickly
4. (colloquial) to spray paint (especially of taggers or graffiti artists)

Conjugation

infinitive	simple	bomber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bombant /bɔ̃.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bombé /bɔ̃.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bombe /bɔ̃b/	bombes /bɔ̃b/	bombe /bɔ̃b/	bombons /bɔ̃.bɔ̃/	bombez /bɔ̃.be/	bombent /bɔ̃b/
	imperfect	bombais /bɔ̃.bɛ/	bombais /bɔ̃.bɛ/	bombait /bɔ̃.bɛ/	bombions /bɔ̃.bjɔ̃/	bombiez /bɔ̃.bje/	bombaient /bɔ̃.bɛ/
	past historic2	bombai /bɔ̃.be/	bombas /bɔ̃.ba/	bomba /bɔ̃.ba/	bombâmes /bɔ̃.bam/	bombâtes /bɔ̃.bat/	bombèrent /bɔ̃.bɛʁ/
	future	bomberai /bɔ̃.bʁe/	bomberas /bɔ̃.bʁa/	bombera /bɔ̃.bʁa/	bomberons /bɔ̃.bʁɔ̃/	bomberez /bɔ̃.bʁe/	bomberont /bɔ̃.bʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bomberais /bɔ̃.bʁɛ/	bomberais /bɔ̃.bʁɛ/	bomberait /bɔ̃.bʁɛ/	bomberions /bɔ̃.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	bomberiez /bɔ̃.bə.ʁje/	bomberaient /bɔ̃.bʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	bombe /bɔ̃b/	bombes /bɔ̃b/	bombe /bɔ̃b/	bombions /bɔ̃.bjɔ̃/	bombiez /bɔ̃.bje/	bombent /bɔ̃b/
	imperfect2	bombasse /bɔ̃.bas/	bombasses /bɔ̃.bas/	bombât /bɔ̃.ba/	bombassions /bɔ̃.ba.sjɔ̃/	bombassiez /bɔ̃.ba.sje/	bombassent /bɔ̃.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bombe /bɔ̃b/	—	bombons /bɔ̃.bɔ̃/	bombez /bɔ̃.be/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Conjugation of bomber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

Derived terms

• bomber le torse

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bomber (jacket).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃.bœʁ/
• Homophone: bombeur

Noun

bomber m (plural bombers)

1. bomber jacket

Further reading

• “bomber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism. In the meaning "bomber jacket", a clipping of English bomber jacket. In the other meanings, transferred senses from the verb English bomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔm.ber/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔmber
• Hyphenation: bòm‧ber

Noun

bomber m (invariable)

1. graffiti artist
2. goal scorer (football)
3. bomber jacket

References

1. bomber in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

• Brembo

Norman

Etymology

From English bomb + -er.

Verb

bomber (gerund bombéthie)

1. (Jersey) to bomb

Derived terms

• bombeux (“bomber”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bomber m or f

1. indefinite plural of bombe

Verb

bomber

1. present of bombe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bomber f

1. indefinite plural of bombe

Swedish

Noun

bomber

1. indefinite plural of bomb