bomb out v.
1. (Aus./US campus) to perform poorly, esp. in an examination.
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Complete Night of the Living Dead 78: You go into it with the intellectual point of view that you may bomb out. | ||
Sl. and Sociability 30: In college slang out is the most productive particle: [...] bomb out ‘fail, perform poorly’. | ||
Turning (2005) 5: For him, our bombing out is a huge joke. | ‘Big World’ in||
Tribute 301: Neither of us could know if he’d get luck or bomb out. |
2. to fail a candidate or examinee.
Animal Factory 39: From the scores he could see that he was in no danger of being bombed out. |
3. to die, esp. from a drug overdose.
On the Yankee Station 1982) 21: She’s really grown fat in the years since my mother bombed out. | ‘Not Yet, Jayette’ (in
4. to get rid of, to terminate a relationship.
Trainspotting 72: That would probably mean bombing out Lizzie and ah’m addicted tae having sex wi her. | ||
O’Byrne Files: Dublin Sl. Dict. 🌐 Bombed out as adj. Jilted, given walking papers. |
5. to become extremely intoxicated.
Observer 5 Sept. 26: Bombing out on a mix of cheap wine [...] ‘pot and whizz’. |
6. (US) to render someone intoxicated.
Clockers 145: The twenty minutes of unconsciousness [...] during the drive to the office had completely bombed him out. | ||
Chopper 4 144: They have just given me my nightly ‘bomb out pill’ and the white clouds are rolling in. |
7. to have one dismissed or ejected.
Mad mag. Feb. 4: I’m asking you to print the photograph that bombed me out of my Intro to Photography class. |