"cherry-bomb" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-cherry-bomb.ogg [Australia] Forms: cherry-bombs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cherry-bomb (plural cherry-bombs)
  1. (sports, US, slang) In the four square ball game, the act of spiking the ball or slamming it down with a great force to make it hard for a person to retrieve it to stay in the game. Tags: US, slang Categories (topical): Sports Coordinate_terms (tree-top): a cherry-bomb with even more impressive force
    Sense id: en-cherry-bomb-en-noun-si1~-Yo7 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Inflected forms

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