OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15383

bombshell

Meanings (ES + gloss)
bomba • bombazo
Any grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell (hollow metal object) containing a charge that can explode.
bombazo
Something that is very surprising, shocking, amazing or sensational.
Singer and Jeffreys had focused their attention on cancer risk, but the bombshell of the report was the danger to children.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s bombshell proposal to take over the Gaza Strip and relocate its Palestinian inhabitants has made the forced transfer of populations – a war crime – a…
bombón • pibón
Someone who is very attractive; a sex symbol.
Diana Dors, the 1950s blonde bombshell
The singer once identified by her shock of green hair has gone blonde and full bombshell, swapping her trademark sweats for a style more domme than deb: pink Gucci corset and skirt…
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