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/bˈɑmʃˌɛl/ Listen

noun

Bombshell n.

A bomb. See Bomb, n.

Something or someone that stuns or amazes, especially suddenly and unexpectedly; as, the news of the president's affair was a political bombshell; a blonde bombshell.

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Etymology of 'Bombshell'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bombshell" Quotes from Famous Books

... she shook with laughter as the end of the blue calico skirt disappeared in the hall. "The little raven have actually begun to sprout cupid wings," she said to herself as she went around the corner of the house toward the Doctor's office. "Co'ting are a bombshell that explodes in the big Road of life and look out who it hits," she further observed to herself as she paused to train up a shoot of the ...

— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess

... A bombshell, descending through the roof could not have produced a more startling sensation. Erect, bold, with all the imposing effect of his form and bearing, the count strode into the centre of the ring; and after a slight bend of haughty courtesy, which comprehended all present, reared up his lofty ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... Southerner as surely as if he'd had the Stars and Bars tattooed on his forehead. We followed him down a short hall into a room furnished, with a couple of couches, an easy-chair, several small but delightful tables, and a piano. Here was the music. A blond bombshell was drumming box chords on the ivories, and grouped around her on side chairs were four young men, playing with her. It was jazz, if that's what you call the quiet racket that comes out of a wooden recorder, a very large pottery ocharina that hooted like a gallon jug, a steel ...

— Modus Vivendi • Gordon Randall Garrett

... regretting his inability; and the colonel declined the invitation on account of his dear boy. Mr. Lamb intimated that he had business with Miss Du Plessis on Crown Land matters, as the department wished to get back into its possession the land owned by her. This was a bombshell in the camp. Miss Du Plessis declined to have any conference on the subject, referring the civil servant to her uncle, to Squire Carruthers, and to her solicitor, Mr. Coristine. The lawyer was disposed to be liberal in politics, although his friend Wilkinson was a strong Conservative; ...

— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell

... at the same instant something was thrown into the tent, like a bombshell, passing the table, knocking over the candle, and ...

— The Drummer Boy • John Trowbridge

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