Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
v. bomb from a diving airplane
Wikipedia
Dive bomb or divebomb may refer to:
- Dive bomb, a guitar technique
- Divebomb, a Transformers character
Usage examples of "dive-bomb".
When harpies dive-bombed her in the orchard, the ogre raised his hamfists and bashed them out of the air.
At first the nesting killdeer screeched and whistled in alarm, flying frantically in all directions and repeatedly dive-bombing the mad sheepherder dressed in rags, who paid them no mind.
Home for Children, looked like a great black bird of prey perched on the armchair to the right of the sofa, and Hatch would not have been surprised if she had suddenly let out a screaky cry, leapt into flight with a great flap of her robes, swooped around the room, and dive-bombed him with the intention of pecking off his nose.
Boiling clouds of pestering gnats and biting deerflies retreated before the invaders, then circled back to dive-bomb and torment at every step.
Gulls bred there, and terns, and though people sometimes beached their boats to swim or picnic, anyone who ventured inland beyond the dunes risked scalp lacerations from being dive-bombed by birds protecting their nests.
The research, of course, is not without some personal risk to Piers's person, since the Australian magpie is a very aggressive bird known to dive-bomb and attack passing schoolchildren, nature enthusiasts, and pluperfect assholes.
But they were promptly dive-bombed in warning before their conning towers were awash.