💣

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Translingual

Description

A typical cartoonish depiction of a bomb; a black or grey spherical object with an elongated neck containing a fuse, sometimes lit (but see usage notes).

Symbol

💣

1. (metonymically) Violence; conflict; crime; doom; explosion; war.

Usage notes

• The display of this emoji differs by operating system and platform.

English

Etymology

A pun.

Noun

💣 (plural 💣s)

1. (Internet slang) Bomb (various senses).

   I will blow up your house 💣💥

   Dropping truth 💣s

   Dropping truth bombs

   Taylor Swift is the 💣!

   Taylor Swift is the bomb!

   Lmao Madame Web completely bombed at the box office 💣 What a joke 😂🤦

Verb

💣 (third-person singular simple present 💣s, present participle 💣ing, simple past and past participle 💣ed)

1. (Internet slang, sometimes euphemistic) Bomb (various senses).
   • 2019 September 15, @CaroleLSpencer, Twitter‎^[3]:

     The first thing that popped in my head "who’s really behind this 💣ing?" Could it be manipulation by Trump&Saudis? To start that war w/ Iran, Iraq? Raise oil prices to fill pockets? Who's to say with a fake POTUS! Anything’s possible!

   • 2022 October 9, u/SRASC, “Race Thread: NCS Bank of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course, starting at 2:00pm EDT on NBC (NCS32)”, in r/NASCAR‎^[4], Reddit:

     Well if your Playoff bracket wasn't 💣ed yet, should be now