See firebomb a Walmart in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From a Twitter post in November 2023 by @LinkofSunshine: \"People on twitter will really be like 'you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart' and then not firebomb a Walmart\". Ironic usage increased during the Democratic Party's campaign in 2024 and after their defeat.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "firebombs a Walmart",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "firebombing a Walmart",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "firebombed a Walmart",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "firebombed a Walmart",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "firebomb a Walmart (third-person singular simple present firebombs a Walmart, present participle firebombing a Walmart, simple past and past participle firebombed a Walmart)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Anarchism",
"orig": "en:Anarchism",
"parents": [
"Ideologies",
"Leftism",
"Politics",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Internet memes",
"orig": "en:Internet memes",
"parents": [
"Comedy",
"Internet",
"Memetics",
"Drama",
"Computing",
"Networking",
"Philosophy",
"Theater",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Art",
"Entertainment",
"Fundamental",
"Culture",
"Society"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Leftism",
"orig": "en:Leftism",
"parents": [
"Ideologies",
"Politics",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Liberalism",
"orig": "en:Liberalism",
"parents": [
"Ideologies",
"Politics",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Politics",
"orig": "en:Politics",
"parents": [
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2024 April 28, @CartoonsHateHer, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-06:",
"text": "Men will literally firebomb a WalMart instead of going to therapy",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024 July 13, @getfiscal, “Archived copy”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-14:",
"text": "Looks like someone finally firebombed the Walmart",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024 November 10, @mrs_socialista, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-06:",
"text": "Liberals are always taunting communists about when we will \"firebomb a walmart\" in protest, and this is when it would actually happen, but by liberals lol",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To take direct action, in the context that the threats of such action are empty."
],
"id": "en-firebomb_a_Walmart-en-verb-sLi6t0lS",
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"politics",
"politics"
],
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"direct action",
"direct action"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet slang, politics, derogatory) To take direct action, in the context that the threats of such action are empty."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "electoralism"
},
{
"word": "LARPer"
},
{
"word": "paper tiger"
},
{
"word": "thought-terminating cliché"
}
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"derogatory"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"politics"
]
}
],
"word": "firebomb a Walmart"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From a Twitter post in November 2023 by @LinkofSunshine: \"People on twitter will really be like 'you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart' and then not firebomb a Walmart\". Ironic usage increased during the Democratic Party's campaign in 2024 and after their defeat.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "firebombs a Walmart",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "firebombing a Walmart",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "firebombed a Walmart",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "firebombed a Walmart",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "firebomb a Walmart (third-person singular simple present firebombs a Walmart, present participle firebombing a Walmart, simple past and past participle firebombed a Walmart)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "electoralism"
},
{
"word": "LARPer"
},
{
"word": "paper tiger"
},
{
"word": "thought-terminating cliché"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English derogatory terms",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English internet slang",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Anarchism",
"en:Internet memes",
"en:Leftism",
"en:Liberalism",
"en:Politics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2024 April 28, @CartoonsHateHer, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-06:",
"text": "Men will literally firebomb a WalMart instead of going to therapy",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024 July 13, @getfiscal, “Archived copy”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-14:",
"text": "Looks like someone finally firebombed the Walmart",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024 November 10, @mrs_socialista, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-06:",
"text": "Liberals are always taunting communists about when we will \"firebomb a walmart\" in protest, and this is when it would actually happen, but by liberals lol",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To take direct action, in the context that the threats of such action are empty."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"politics",
"politics"
],
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"direct action",
"direct action"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet slang, politics, derogatory) To take direct action, in the context that the threats of such action are empty."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"derogatory"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"politics"
]
}
],
"word": "firebomb a Walmart"
}
Download raw JSONL data for firebomb a Walmart meaning in English (2.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.