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noun bomber n. 1.A military aircraft that drops bombs during flight. 2.A large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the US. Synonyms: grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep. 3.A person who drops bombs or plants and explodes bombs, especially surreptitously.
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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"Bomber" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... going to have lots of fun and more than our share of danger before we see Washington again. After you get through bearding Bolton in his den, you might call the Chief of the Air Corps and ask him to have a bomber held at Langley Field subject to my orders. If he squawks ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various
... beautifully. The machine was known, of course, to be a bombing machine, shot down during operations. No one would know how many bombs had come down with it; no one would come close until after the flames had burned down. Then the Germans would find the "pilot" and the "bomber," the two still forms the lads had strapped to the machine before leaving their own lines. Everyone would be accounted for; no search ...
— The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders • Clair W. Hayes
... think Allison showed good sense in running out on us and joining a bomber outfit," Stan growled. "Here we are sitting up all night keeping this stove ...
— A Yankee Flier Over Berlin • Al Avery
... in the supporting industries and helped to maintain liaison with the front-line trenches by lending eyes to transportation, it was also doing its part at the battle front. Huge search-lights revealed the submarine and the aerial bomber; flares exposed the manoeuvers of the enemy; rockets brought aid to beleaguered vessels and troops; pistol lights fired by the aerial observer directed artillery fire; and many other devices of artificial ...
— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh
... course to the next lighthouse and the previously tested direction and velocity of wind are accurately checked in this way and future courses altered accordingly. These calculations are all important to the long-distance night bomber, for although roads show up in the moonlight like white threads, they are too numerous and interwoven to be followed for great distances, and although rivers and lakes look like silver ribbons and blotches, the moon may be obscured ...
— Night Bombing with the Bedouins • Robert Henry Reece
... also be taught how the bombers and grenadiers are concentrated in the French organization. The typical bombing squad consists of 7 or 8 men and a leader who take positions as follows: 1 and 2, bayonet men; 3, first thrower; 4, first carrier; 5, leader; 6, rifle bomber; 7, second thrower; 8, second carrier; 9, rifle bomber. One of these bayonet men may be reserved to act as a sniper. The leader acts as an observer and directs the work of the bombers. The rifle bombers outrange the hostile ...
— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker
... Royal Palace was on fire from end to end, and the entire waterfront and industrial district were in flames. Combat-cars and airjeeps were diving in to shell and rocket and machine-gun streets and buildings. He saw six big bomber-lorries move in dignified procession to unload, one after the other, on a row of buildings along what the Terrans called South Tenth Street, and on the roofs of buildings a block away, red and blue flares were burning, and he could see figures, both ...
— Uller Uprising • Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr |
Words linked to "Bomber" : armed forces, individual, hero sandwich, military, military plane, mortal, hoagy, submarine, military machine, Cuban sandwich, warplane, person, submarine sandwich, grinder, airplane, bomb, wedge, somebody, suicide bomber, hoagie, cannon, dive bomber, poor boy, sub, bomber jacket, soul, sandwich, aeroplane, zep, someone, Italian sandwich, B-52, Bomber Harris, torpedo, war machine, stealth bomber, plane, hero, bomb rack |
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