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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bombshell \Bomb"shell`\, n.
A bomb. See Bomb, n.
something or someone that stuns or amazes, especially suddenly and unexpectedly; as, the news of the president's affair was a political bombshell; a blonde bombshell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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'')
WordNet
n. an entertainer who has a sensational effect; "she was a blonde bombshell"
a shocking surprise; "news of the attack came like a bombshell" [syn: thunderbolt, thunderclap]
an explosive bomb or artillery shell
Wikipedia
The term bombshell is a forerunner to the term " sex symbol" and originally used to describe popular female sex icons. In modern usage, bombshell refers to a very attractive woman. The Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper attests the usage of the term in this meaning since 1942, and in the meaning of "shattering or devastating thing or event" since 1860.
Bombshell is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic comedy-drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes and Franchot Tone. The film is based on the unproduced play of the same name by Caroline Francke and Mack Crane, and was adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin and Jules Furthman.
Bombshell (Amy Allen) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Teen Titans vol. 3, #38, and was created by Geoff Johns and Tony Daniel.
Bombshell (Wendy Conrad) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Bombshell first appeared in Hawkeye Vol. 1 #3 and was created by Mark Gruenwald.
Bombshell may refer to:
- Bombshell (sex symbol), a sexually attractive woman
- Bomb, an explosive device
- Shell (projectile), a payload-carrying projectile
Bombshell is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. Due to trademark issues, he was later renamed Hardshell.
Bombshell is an album by King Creosote, released in 2007.
Regarding the album, Kenny Anderson states that:
The new ones are pretty much my insecurities or paranoia of whatever I'm going through at this part of my life. I've got a daughter now, she's 8 and there's a song "Church as Witness" about a fall out she and I had, and yeah, there's others coming from a sort of older period in time just about all different things really. They are some comedy things on there. A lot of it I suppose is relationship based and then I suppose there's "You've No clue Do You?" which is a kind of a "who-done-it?" in the grand "Cluedo" tradition.
Bombshell is the second soundtrack album by the cast of the American musical television series Smash. It was released by Columbia Records on February 12, 2013. and sold 16,000 copies in its first week. As of the week ending March 3, 2013, it has sold 26,000 copies.
Bombshell is a British television drama series produced by Shed Productions, the company behind Footballers' Wives, Bad Girls and Waterloo Road. The series focuses on the day-to-day workload of officers and soldiers in the British Army, and was subsequently given the nickname Army Wives by the British press. Originally commissioned by Shed Productions in early 2004, the series was due to be aired by ITV in February 2005, but as of 2016, has still not been shown in the UK. An ITV spokesperson claimed that this was due to the similarities between the series and Ultimate Force. However, the series was shown on TV One in New Zealand in 2006, and on the Hallmark Channel in Australia in 2008. A DVD of the series was released on March 3, 2007 in New Zealand.
"Bombshell" is the fifteenth episode and first season finale of the American television series, Smash. The episode was written by series creator Theresa Rebeck and directed by Michael Morris. It premiered on the NBC network on May 14, 2012. In "Bombshell", Derek ( Jack Davenport) has to choose Rebecca Duvall's ( Uma Thurman) replacement in time for the show's opening night. The decision changes both Ivy ( Megan Hilty) and Karen's ( Katharine McPhee) lives forever. Tom ( Christian Borle) and Julia ( Debra Messing) hurry to save the show, while Ellis show his true colors to Eileen ( Anjelica Huston). Lyle West ( Nick Jonas) returns with bad news and "Bombshell" continues its previews in Boston.
Bombshell is an American musical with music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman, and Scott Wittman, based on the original fictitious musical from the second season of the NBC television series Smash. The songs include soulful jazz anthems and upbeat pop songs. Bombshell is the life story of Marilyn Monroe. It tells the story of the aspiring starlet, who transforms herself to into a worldwide sex symbol, her early life, and her alleged affair with American President John F. Kennedy.
Within the television series Smash characters Julia Houston ( Debra Messing) and Tom Levitt ( Christian Borle) set out to write their next Broadway sensation. The book and lyrics for Bombshell are by the character "Julia Houston", with music by "Tom Levitt". Bombshell centers around three characters, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Kennedy.
A soundtrack featuring the music from the musical was released in 2013. The songs were featured in a one-night charity concert, and the musical is being adapted to a real stage musical on Broadway.
Bombshell is a top-down action role-playing game game developed by Interceptor Entertainment and published by 3D Realms. The game was released on January 29, 2016 for Microsoft Windows, with PlayStation 4 and Xbox One release dates to be announced later. The game runs on Unreal Engine 3.
Bombshell is a sci-fi film/ thriller written and directed by Paul Wynne and starring Henry Thomas, Mädchen Amick, Frank Whaley, Pamela Gidley, and Brion James. It is produced by Wyatt Knight, Steven Paul, Patrick Peach, Vicky Pike, Jeff Ritchie, and Paul Wynne (himself). The production company is Molecular Films and Wynne/Pike Productions.
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.