bomber Definition
bomber (bäm′ər)
noun
- an airplane designed for dropping bombs
- a person who uses bombs, as for illegal purposes
bomber Synonyms
bomber
n.
bomber Usage Examples
Converse of object
- torpedo: Type: Biplane, torpedo bomber, later long distance reconnaissance.
- twin-engin: Finally black specs appear in my sights and I see three formations, possibly 18 twin-engined bombers.
- escort: A fighter is escorting a bomber on a raid.
Adjective modifier
- long-range: We haven't built a new long-range bomber for 21 years.
- b-1: As the pilot of the B-1 bomber swooped low, the controller told him: " This is the big one.
- suspected: Next, how not to be a suspected suicide bomber.
- engined: A system designed to counter a 400 mph piston engined bomber just could not cope with the new threat.
- would-be: To the woman who was sat next to the would-be bomber?
Modifies a noun
- squadron: Yet anyone who has served on a wartime bomber squadron will be aware of it.
- jacket: He was possibly wearing gray bomber type jacket, beige fleece.
- airfield: This fuel network supplied all the major bomber airfields during the cold war.
- escort: The Squadron moved down to Cornwall in March 1943 for fighter patrols and bomber escort missions.
- raid: On 31 May 1942 the first ' thousand bomber raid ' was launched against Cologne.
Noun used with modifier
- suicide: The suicide bombers did not come out of thin air.
- stealth: The Zeppelin Oak - October 2nd, 1916 The airship was the original " stealth bomber.
- IRA: The IRA bombers were determined not to be caught.
- fighter: I was making my headquarters at an air base where a fighter bomber wing was stationed.
- liberator: A Liberator patrol bomber with a crew of 11 ditched ahead of our task group.
- dive: First hand accounts from dive bomber pilots of WW2.
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