plural of Bomba

(music) A form of traditional drumming, and an associated form of dance, from Puerto Rico.

A surname.

A 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest nuke ever exploded.

(archaic) Cotton, or cotton wool. / (archaic) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.

To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad. / To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.

Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.

(of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous / High-sounding but with little meaning. / (archaic) Inflated, overfilled.

In a bombastic manner.

Alternative form of bombazine