The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bomb \Bomb\, v. t.
   To bombard. [Obs.] --Prior.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bomb \Bomb\, v. i. [Cf. Boom.]
   To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.]
   --B. Jonson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bomb \Bomb\, n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or
   buzzing noise, Gr. ?.]
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   1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
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            A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck,
            would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber
            beneath.                              --Bacon.
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   2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired
      from mortars. See Shell.
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   3. A bomb ketch.
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   Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with
      gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by
      its explosion.

   Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel,
      very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be
      used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar
      vessel.

   Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used
      in whale fishing.

   Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape.
      "I noticed volcanic bombs." --Darwin.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bomb
    n 1: an explosive device fused to explode under specific
         conditions
    2: strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion [syn:
       bomb calorimeter, bomb]
    3: an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the
       first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud
       as far as new business was concerned" [syn: turkey, bomb,
       dud]
    v 1: throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed
         Dresden" [syn: bombard, bomb]
    2: fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed
       nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" [syn: fail, flunk,
       bomb, flush it] [ant: make it, pass]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

bomb

   1.  General synonym for crash except that it is
   not used as a noun.  Especially used of software or OS
   failures.  "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll
   bomb".

   2.  Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents
   of a Unix "panic" or Amiga guru, in which icons of
   little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed,
   indicating that the system has died.  On the Macintosh, this
   may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally
   hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to
   the Amiga guru meditation number.  MS-DOS computers tend
   to lock up in this situation.

   3.  A piece of code embedded in a program that
   remains dormant until it is triggered.  Logic bombs are
   triggered by an event whereas time bombs are triggered either
   after a set amount of time has elapsed, or when a specific
   date is reached.

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   (1996-12-08)


The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

bomb


    1. v. General synonym for crash (sense 1) except that it is not used as a
    noun; esp. used of software or OS failures. “Don't run Empire with less
    than 32K stack, it'll bomb.”

    2. n.,v. Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a Unix panic or Amiga guru
    meditation, in which icons of little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds
    are displayed, indicating that the system has died. On the Mac, this may be
    accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally hexadecimal) number indicating
    what went wrong, similar to the Amiga guru meditation number. MS-DOS
    machines tend to get locked up in this situation.