BOMBED

Verb

bombed

simple past tense and past participle of bomb

Adjective

bombed (comparative more bombed, superlative most bombed)

(slang) intoxicated; drunk or high

Synonyms

• (drunk): See drunk

• (high)

Anagrams

• mobbed

Source: Wiktionary


BOMB

Bomb, n. Etym: [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. .]

1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.] A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.

2. (Mil.)

Definition: A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

3. A bomb ketch. 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.

Bomb, v. t.

Definition: To bombard. [Obs.] Prior.

Bomb, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Boom.]

Definition: To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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