It can be used to mean "really good", as in "It's bomb."" (also: "It's the bomb.")
Sometimes goods are said to "cost a bomb", meaning that it is very expensive.
"Bomb" is also used in the sense of "going very quickly," as in "bombing along."
The term "old bomb" sometimes means to an old automobile in very poor condition.
Someone who tries and fails spectacularly at a task is often said to have "bombed out"; for example, a comedian who tells a joke which falls flat says that joke "bombed".
A motion picture or theatrical production which is a financial failure is often described as a "bomb". Alternatively, some people use the term "bomb" to refer instead to films of particularly bad quality, irrelevant of financial concerns. In seeming contradiction to this, a blockbuster motion picture is a great financial success.
"Bombing" sometimes means a non-standard diving(not scuba) method, which is entering the water in the fetal position bottom first, making a big splash. See diving#Feet first or head first for more information.
A Bomb icon is used on Mac OS when it has a non-fatal error (same as a GPF in Windows 9x).
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Bombs are first and foremost weapons; the term "bomb" is not usually applied to explosive devices used for civilian purposes, such as construction or mining, although the people using the devices may sometimes refer to them as bombs.
A bomb may also be positioned in advance and concealed, for example in a garbage container, car or truck as a car bomb, or by the roadside in a roadside bomb, in a building as a booby trap, or in lugguage and in a vehicle.
In the case of suicide bombing the bomb is often carried by the attacker on his or her body, or a in a vehicle driven to the target.
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