Bombsite

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A place where a bomb has exploded.

    "Postwar London remained pockmarked with bombsites for many years."

  2. 2
    A very messy place. colloquial

    "All around the neatly arranged victim, the sitting room was a bombsite. Ornaments had been sent tumbling from the shelves , and the ground was littered with the debris of shattered porcelain animals. In the foreground of the photograph were the splintered remains of a pink poodle barometer promising fair weather."

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"Postwar London remained pockmarked with bombsites for many years."

Etymology

From bomb + site.

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