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Lovely surprise?
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bombshell
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Word definitions for bombshell in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bombshell is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes . Due to trademark issues, he was later renamed Hardshell .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1708, from bomb (n.) + shell (n.). The figurative sense of "shattering or devastating thing or event" attested from 1860. In reference to a pretty woman (especially a blonde) it is attested from 1942 ( "Bombshell" as title of a movie starring blond U.S. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a bomb or artillery shell designed to explode on impact 2 something that is very surprising, shocking, amazing or sensational 3 (context by extension English) someone who is very attractive (compare ''sex symbol'')
Usage examples of bombshell.
Germany, but it fell like a bombshell on the little group of Nazi leaders gathered at Gera, and Goebbels moved quickly to see that it became known as little as possible.
Several hoods in front of him, sleek little fuel-injected Alpha particle manned by sandalwood-haired guy hugging cellular phone swaps places with convertible Stuttgart-apparatus piloted by blond bombshell lip-syncing to the same song Kraft himself has tuned in on the radio.
He was used to bombshell blondes and drop-dead redheads, to women who made a career out of aerobicizing their bodies and augmenting their breasts.
Her chest tightened as she clasped her hands together, wondering what bombshells were about to burst.
Brand in exile, Brand junkless, Brand writing the novel that would detonate in the gut of America like a fiery bacterial bombshell.
Davis dropped the bombshell that Wilkins was about to lose his license.
A tension headache had taken hold from the moment Samantha had delivered her bombshell yesterday.
The bombshell that the Saint had flung at him had knocked the underpinning from the very foundations of his universe.
Not until they were in their own solar chamber, however, did Angie drop a bombshell into their desultory and sleepy conversation.
Cascane commented with the studied calm of a man about to drop a bombshell.
Tricker, if you're going to drop a bombshell like this it might be best to make arrangements beforehand.
If a man wanted to drop a bombshell, there could scarcely be a better time to do it.
They were still making progress on their linguistic programs, helped by the fact that they were no longer afraid to use their remotes at full range as long as they stayed outside the Temple's hundred-kilometer kill zone, yet two weeks had passed since Sandy's bombshell, and none of them had the least idea what to do next.
From their frantic whispers I gathered that a bombshell as tiny as that sealstone was possible in theory, though no race known to the Wersgorix were skillful enough to make one.
The ball of fire, half white, half azure-colored, about the size of a ten-inch bombshell, moved along, turning with prodigious rapidity to leeward of the storm.