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Bomber   /bˈɑmər/   Listen
noun
bomber  n.  
1.
A military aircraft that drops bombs during flight.
2.
A large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the US.
Synonyms: grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep.
3.
A person who drops bombs or plants and explodes bombs, especially surreptitously.
4.
A bomber jacket.





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"Bomber" Quotes from Famous Books



... till one day he, too, is a victim. Never were duels so detached or so intense. No clashing of steel, no flecks of blood, only two men with wings. While the soldier feels his weapon go home and the bomber sees his bomb in flight, the aviator watches for his opponent to drop forward in his seat as the first sign that he has lost control of his plane and of victory, and he does not hear the passing of the bullets that answer those from his own machine gun. One hero comes to take the place of another ...
— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... tractor biplane flying near the seashore. The oblong black speck directly under the airplane is an aerial bomb, with guiding fins like a torpedo's, which the bomber, who is sitting in the rear seat, has just released from the rack under him. On most planes a machine gun on a swivel is mounted behind the man in the rear seat. If the plane is a single-seater, the machine gun is stationary, mounted in front of the pilot, and "synchronized," ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood
... many. Among them, are the crew of a jet-bomber which has been on maneuvers in Egypt. We ...
— Black Eyes and the Daily Grind • Milton Lesser
... think Allison showed good sense in running out on us and joining a bomber outfit," Stan growled. "Here we are sitting up all night keeping this stove poked full ...
— A Yankee Flier Over Berlin • Al Avery


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