a hydrogen or atomic bomb considered as the ultimate destructive weapon
b. slang
something excellent
it's the bomb
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the Bomb in American English
Informal
1.
atomic bomb
2.
a.
any nuclear weapon
b.
nuclear weapons collectively
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Examples of 'the bomb' in a sentence
the bomb
Metal detectors had been unable to pick up the bomb 's metallic elements so close to the floor.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This includes claims about a fragment of the bomb 's timing mechanism that was found in the countryside near Lockerbie in the months after the atrocity.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Mace switched his right side MFD from the Present Position page to the SRAM Air page and placed the Bomb Data page on the left MFD.