"drop the bomb" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "drops the bomb",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dropping the bomb",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped the bomb",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped the bomb",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, bomb."
      ],
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        ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Chris Myers Asch, The Senator and the Sharecropper",
          "text": "A mere two months after the New Orleans hearings, the Supreme Court dropped the bomb that Eastland and other white southerners feared: Brown. Much as the Chinese Communists' victory and the Russian's building of the atomic bomb in 1949 had ignited the Cold War and anti-Communism, the Brown decision took the struggle for and against black freedom to a new level of intensity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Cege Smith, Edge of Shadows",
          "text": "Melanie dropped the bomb. \"His buddy was a Mr. Henry Decatur.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Mary Kay Andrews, Save the Date",
          "text": "Sylvia finally returned my calls yesterday, and while I was in the middle of chewing her out about the airconditioning, she dropped the bomb. Said it didn't matter because she'd sold the building.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Gail Sattler, The Best Man's Holiday Romance",
          "text": "Natasha gulped and tried to look cheerful when she dropped the bomb on him. “Four down, forty-six to go.” Jeff froze. “Excuse me? Did I hear you right? That means you have to buy fifty Christmas presents?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Rexanne Becnel, The Christmas Train",
          "text": "Then she'd dropped the bomb: she was pregnant.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to reveal dramatic and unexpected news that changes a situation completely"
      ],
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        [
          "unexpected",
          "unexpected"
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        [
          "news",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to reveal dramatic and unexpected news that changes a situation completely"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drop the bomb"
}

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    "English verbs"
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    {
      "form": "drops the bomb",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropping the bomb",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped the bomb",
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "dropped the bomb",
      "tags": [
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, bomb."
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Chris Myers Asch, The Senator and the Sharecropper",
          "text": "A mere two months after the New Orleans hearings, the Supreme Court dropped the bomb that Eastland and other white southerners feared: Brown. Much as the Chinese Communists' victory and the Russian's building of the atomic bomb in 1949 had ignited the Cold War and anti-Communism, the Brown decision took the struggle for and against black freedom to a new level of intensity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Cege Smith, Edge of Shadows",
          "text": "Melanie dropped the bomb. \"His buddy was a Mr. Henry Decatur.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Mary Kay Andrews, Save the Date",
          "text": "Sylvia finally returned my calls yesterday, and while I was in the middle of chewing her out about the airconditioning, she dropped the bomb. Said it didn't matter because she'd sold the building.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Gail Sattler, The Best Man's Holiday Romance",
          "text": "Natasha gulped and tried to look cheerful when she dropped the bomb on him. “Four down, forty-six to go.” Jeff froze. “Excuse me? Did I hear you right? That means you have to buy fifty Christmas presents?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Rexanne Becnel, The Christmas Train",
          "text": "Then she'd dropped the bomb: she was pregnant.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "to reveal dramatic and unexpected news that changes a situation completely"
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) to reveal dramatic and unexpected news that changes a situation completely"
      ],
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