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bomb
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Definition
Anything of high quality. Excellence. Also can mean to fail.
Context : Social Life Category: Vernacular Semantic: excellence, failure, quality
"To bomb", as in "to fail", is the earliest usage of the idiom. The later meaning of bomb, as in "it's the bomb", is likely a knock-off of the idiom "it's the balm".
Usage of “bomb”
Those burritos are bomb. (excellent)
The party was the bomb. (fun)
We bombed at the competition. (failure)
Related Idioms
Examples of idiom “bomb” from Twitter
lillyLiCiOUZ:soo like tommy barrowed this beef jerky maker from his homie&they made some&this shit is pretty bomb! Just hella spicyy!
AjaDaniels:@gascanatalie I did!! Dude he's SuPer bomb!!
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daniela_mendoza:
@Randall_Lynn bakers sounds so bomb!
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HeartStarDot:
Just had the best salad ever! I just made it up last night...turned out bomb! :-)