Noun
(informal, often capitalized) The atomic bomb; the capability to launch a nuclear attack.
Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.
(slang) A success; something excellent.
Their new record is the bomb.
That party was the bomb!
the Bomb
Alternative form of the bomb (as in a nuclear bomb)
I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. Bob Dylan
A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb. Leó Szilárd
When you have just been told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon. P. G. Wodehouse
To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place. Constant Lambert
Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life. George Carlin
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts. Henry L. Stimson