cherry bomb

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   a red ball-shaped firecracker with high explosive power

   Broaderfirecracker

Questions about cherry bomb

What does cherry bomb mean?

cherry bomb means "a red ball-shaped firecracker with high explosive power".

Is cherry bomb a common word?

cherry bomb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.