time bomb
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.
noun
A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.
Example Sentences
- "At 9.40 a.m. on Bank Holiday Monday, August 5, a ganger found what was thought to be a time bomb at a level crossing at Tempsford, near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, […] Inside one box was a brick; the other contained the works of an old alarm clock."
- "Donald Gene Burleson was prosecuted on felony charges for planting a time bomb that, shortly after he was fired, deleted more than 168,000 brokerage records of USPA & IRA in Fort Worth, Texas."
- "Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future."
- "Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers."
- "The pandemic preparation timebomb detonated to devastating effect; a number of other timebombs are on the shortest of fuses. The government has now reached a state of perfect vicious cycle, when the only thing worse than the things it does are all the things it didn’t get round to doing."