Bomb
Bomb verb - To be unsuccessful.
Usage example: the chichi restaurant bombed big-time, lasting only six months
Fold
Fold verb - To be unsuccessful.
Usage example: the business folded after just two months
How words are described
| good | good bomb | good fold |
| long | long bomb | long fold |
| fake | fake bomb | fake fold |
| little | little bomb | little fold |
| Other adjectives: black, extra. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Macross Frontier introduces the "Dimension Eater"/"fold bomb", which generates an expanding swirly purple sphere of doom that shunts anything consumed by it into a Fold vortex (where it will be torn apart and disintegrated) as it grows to planetary scale before collapsing in on itself.
Source: Sphere of Destruction -
They also have a bonus: matter teleported away by a Fold Bomb will leave a vacuum when it's gone, so activating one of these within an atmosphere will wreak further destruction on whatever is left behind.
Source: Portal Cut
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