dive-bomb

1. 1.

   bomb from a diving airplane

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Questions about dive-bomb

What does dive-bomb mean?

dive-bomb means "bomb from a diving airplane".

How many syllables are in dive-bomb?

dive-bomb has 3 syllables and divides as di-ve--bomb under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is dive-bomb a common word?

dive-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.