Nathaniel Smith wrote:
English dialect? I've spent my whole life in California, and have Nick's meaning for "bomb" in my dialect just fine. (Generally, "bomb" as a verb seems to mean "to fail", while "the bomb" is something good, cool, great, etc.)
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