bomber

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

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒmə(ɹ)

From bomb + -er.

bomber (plural bombers)

1. (aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
   • 2020 March 7, Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, “History’s deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II and you’ve probably never heard of it”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.

   • 2025 June 21, Thomas Bordeaux, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, “US moves B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran options”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     B-2 bombers are the only plane capable of carrying the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which experts have highlighted as the only type of bomb potentially capable of destroying Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility. Each B-2 bomber is able to carry two of these “bunker buster” bombs, which weigh an impressive 30,000 pounds each.

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^[3]:

     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^[4]:

     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. Ellipsis of 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.

• bombardier

A shortened form of bombproof.

bomber (comparative more bomber, superlative most bomber)

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

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

• bomber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• mobber

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

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!

From bomba +‎ -er.

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

bomber m (plural bombers, feminine bombera, feminine plural bomberes)

1. firefighter

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

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

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)

• “bomber” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bomber c

1. indefinite plural of bombe

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bomber

1. present tense of bombe

From bombe +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃.be/

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)

• bomber le torse

Borrowed from English bomber (jacket).

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

bomber m (plural bombers)

1. bomber jacket

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

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

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

bomber m (invariable)

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

• Brembo

From English bomb + -er.

bomber (gerund bombéthie)

1. (Jersey) to bomb

• bombeux (“bomber”)

bomber m or f

1. indefinite plural of bombe

bomber

1. present of bombe

bomber f

1. indefinite plural of bombe

bomber

1. indefinite plural of bomb